Distant

Definition

distant /'dÇstǝnt/ adj ၁။ (ကာလ၊ ေဒသ) ကြာလွမ္းေသာ။ ေဝးကြာေသာ။ travel to distant parts of the world ❍ a distant land ❍ the sound of a distant aeroplane ❍ The airport is about ten miles distant (from the city). ❍ I hope we'll meet again in the not-too-distant future. ❍ It's only a dim and distant memory now. ❍ World peace still seems a distant prospect. ၂။ (of people) အရင္းအခ်ာ မဟုတ္ေသာ။ a distant cousin. ၃။ (က) ခပ္တန္းတန္းျဖစ္ေသာ။ He seems distant until you get to know him. အေၾကာင္း မသိခင္ကေတာ့ ခပ္တန္းတန္းပဲ။ (ခ) စိတ္လြင့္ပါးေနေသာ။ အျခားသို႔ စိတ္ေရာက္ေနေသာ။ She had a distant look in her eyes and obviously wasn't listening. distantly adv : We're distantly related. ❍ She smiled distantly (at us). ❍ Somewhere, distantly, he could hear the sound of the sea.

Examples

1. Her eyes scanned the distant hills.
2. I could faintly hear the distant rumble of traffic.
3. The castle was four miles distant.
4. The elections are still five weeks distant.
5. [in the distant past/future] : One day
6. in the distant future
7. I might go and live abroad.
8. [in the not too distant future] : I expect to return in the not too distant future.
9. [a distant memory] : That lovely summer in Majorca already felt like a distant memory.
10. Violet was cold and distant.
11. He nodded slowly
12. a distant look in his eyes.
13. A distant relative/cousin