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8-letter words (2 found)

DANCIEST,DISTANCE,

7-letter words (18 found)

ACETINS,ACIDEST,CANDIES,CANIEST,CINEAST,DACITES,DECANTS,DESCANT,DESTAIN,DETAINS,DISCANT,INCASED,INSTEAD,NIDATES,SAINTED,SATINED,SCANTED,STAINED,

6-letter words (52 found)

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5-letter words (129 found)

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4-letter words (156 found)

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3-letter words (82 found)

ACE,ACT,ADS,AID,AIN,AIS,AIT,AND,ANE,ANI,ANS,ANT,ATE,ATS,CAD,CAN,CAT,CID,CIS,CIT,DAE,DAN,DAS,DEI,DEN,DIE,DIN,DIS,DIT,EAN,EAS,EAT,EDS,END,ENS,EST,ETA,ICE,IDE,IDS,INS,ITA,ITS,NAE,NAS,NAT,NED,NET,NID,NIE,NIS,NIT,SAC,SAD,SAE,SAI,SAN,SAT,SEA,SEC,SED,SEI,SEN,SET,SIC,SIN,SIT,TAD,TAE,TAI,TAN,TAS,TEA,TEC,TED,TEN,TES,TIC,TID,TIE,TIN,TIS,

2-letter words (25 found)

AD,AE,AI,AN,AS,AT,DA,DE,DI,EA,ED,EN,ES,ET,ID,IN,IS,IT,NA,NE,SI,ST,TA,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 465 words from distance according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of distance

distance

Alternative forms

  • distaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English distance, distaunce, destaunce, from Old French destance, from Latin distantia (“distance, remoteness, difference”), from distāns, present participle of distō (“I stand apart, I am separate, distant, or different”), from di-, dis- (“apart”) + stō (“I stand”). Compare Dutch afstand (“distance”, literally “off-stand, off-stance”), German Abstand.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɪs.tɪns/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈdɪs.təns/
  • Rhymes: (weak vowel merger) -ɪstəns

Noun

distance (countable and uncountable, plural distances)

  1. The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
  2. Length or interval of time.
  3. (informal) The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.
  4. Remoteness of place; a remote place.
  5. Remoteness in succession or relation.
  6. A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
  7. (uncountable, figuratively) The entire amount of progress to an objective.
  8. (uncountable, figuratively) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
  9. The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
  10. The space measured back from the winning-post which a racehorse running in a heat must reach when the winner has covered the whole course, in order to run in the final heat.

Synonyms

  • (remoteness): farness

Derived terms

Related terms

  • distant

Translations

Verb

distance (third-person singular simple present distances, present participle distancing, simple past and past participle distanced)

  1. (transitive, also reflexive) To move away (from) someone or something.
  2. (transitive) To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.
  3. (transitive) To lose interest in a specific issue.

Derived terms

  • outdistance

Translations

Further reading

  • “distance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “distance”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “distance”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • danciest

Danish

Etymology

From French distance.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /distanɡsə/, [d̥iˈsd̥ɑŋsə]

Noun

distance c (singular definite distancen, plural indefinite distancer)

  1. distance
  2. detachment

Declension

Further reading

  • “distance” in Den Danske Ordbog

Esperanto

Etymology

From distanco +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [diˈstant͡se]
  • Rhymes: -ant͡se
  • Hyphenation: di‧stan‧ce

Adverb

distance

  1. To or at a great distance.
    rigardi pentraĵon distance.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dis.tɑ̃s/
  • Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin distantia.

Noun

distance f (plural distances)

  1. distance (literal physical distance)
  2. distance (metaphoric or figurative)
Derived terms
Related terms
  • distant
Descendants
  • Antillean Creole: distans
  • Haitian Creole: distans
  • → Russian: диста́нция (distáncija)
    • → Georgian: დისტანცია (disṭancia)
    • → Ukrainian: диста́нція (dystáncija)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

distance

  1. inflection of distancer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “distance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latvian

Noun

distance f (5 declension)

  1. distance
  2. interval
  3. railway division

Declension


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