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in the distance

in the distance adverb: far away; a long distance away.

Adverb

in the distance (not comparable)

  1. Far away; a long distance away.
    • It was, by my watch, nearly an hour and a half from the time of our leaving the station before I heard the sound of the sea in the distance1860, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
    • After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming.1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “The Pool of Tears”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 17

in the distance meaning in Malayalam

in the distance in Malayalam

afar, far away, far off
വിദൂരത്തിൽ, ദൂരെ, വിതരം, അങ്ങ്, അകലെ, ബഹുദൂരത്തായി അങ്ങകലെ

Questions about in the distance

What does in the distance mean?
In the distance means far away; a long distance away.
What is in the distance in Malayalam?
In the distance in Malayalam is വിദൂരത്തിൽ, ദൂരെ, വിതരം. See In the distance meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is in the distance?
In the distance is an adverb.

Words near in the distance in the dictionary

  1. in the cold light of day
  2. in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
  3. in the course of time
  4. in the crosshairs
  5. in the dark
  6. in the distance
  7. in the dock
  8. in the dogbox
  9. in the doghouse
  10. in the drink
  11. in the driver's seat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in the distance (page history and authors); in the distance (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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