1. The property created by the space between two objects or points
   "The distance between the two cities was greater than they had anticipated"
    
2. A distant region
   "I could see it in the distance"
    
3. Size of the gap between two places
   "the distance from New York to Chicago";
   - length
    
4. The interval between two times
   "the distance from birth to death";
   - space
    
5. A remote point in time
   "if that happens, it will be at some distance in the future"; "at a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details"
    
6. Indifference by personal withdrawal
   "emotional distance";
   - aloofness

1. Keep at a distance
   "we have to distance ourselves from these events in order to continue living"
    
2. Go far ahead of
   "He distanced the other runners";
   - outdistance, outstrip

Derived forms: distanced, distances, distancing

See also: close, distant, far, near, nigh

Type of: hold, indifference, interval, keep, leave behind, maintain, part, point, point in time, region, size, spacing, spatial arrangement, time interval

Encyclopedia: Distance