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social distance

social distance noun: the distance between different social groups, e.g. in terms of class, ethnicity, gender-identity, sexual-identity, etc.

Noun

social distance (plural social distances)

  1. The distance between different social groups, e.g. in terms of class, ethnicity, gender-identity, sexual-identity, etc.
  2. An appropriate distance for interactions among acquaintances during epidemics.

Verb

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

  1. To maintain a certain distance between at least two people to contain the spread of an infectious disease.

social distance meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Malay and Indonesian

social distance in Tamil

சமுதாய இடைவெளி, சமூக, சமுக, குமுக இடைவேளி

social distance in Malayalam

appropriate distance for interactions among acquaintances during epidemics
സാമൂഹിക അകലം sāmūhika akalaṁ

social distance in Malay

distance between social groups
penjarakan sosial

social distance in Indonesian

distance between social groups
pembatasan sosial
More languagesFewer languages
social distance in Persian
فاصله اجتماعی
social distance in Vietnamese
khoảng cách xã hội, sự cách ly xã hội, tạo khoảng cách xã hội, cách ly xã hội

Forms of social distance

Noun
pluralsocial distances
Verb
third-person singular presentsocial distances
present participlesocial distancing
past participlesocial distanced
pastsocial distanced

Questions about social distance

What does social distance mean?
Social distance means the distance between different social groups, e.g. in terms of class, ethnicity, gender-identity, sexual-identity, etc.
What is social distance in Tamil?
Social distance in Tamil is சமுதாய இடைவெளி, சமூக, சமுக. See Social distance meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is social distance?
Social distance can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of social distance?
The plural of social distance is social distances.

Words near social distance in the dictionary

  1. social democrat
  2. social democratic
  3. Social Democratic Party
  4. social democrats
  5. social disease
  6. social distance
  7. social distanced
  8. social distances
  9. social distancing
  10. social drinker
  11. social drinkers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: social distance (page history and authors); social distance (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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