Noun: distance
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | distance |
| Plural f | distances |
Sample Sentences
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On se tient à distance de deux kilomètres l'un de l'autre. (We stand at a distance of two kilometers from each other.)
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Il convient de la tenir à une certaine distance. (It's suitable to maintain a certain distance.)
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Votre langage doit vous permettre de maintenir une bonne distance de sécurité, être un peu plus poli et détaché que nécessaire est un avantage. (Your language must allow you to maintain a good safe distance, to be a little more polite and detached than necessary is an advantage.) [2014, Jean-Claude Bernardon, Résolution de conflits:]
Nouns inflected like distance
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle French distance, from Old French destance, destaunce, distaunce (“debate; difference, distinction; discord, quarrel; dispute; space between two points; time interval”), borrowed from Latin distantia (“difference, diversity; distance, remoteness; space between two points”). See: Latin Nouns '
distantia'.
Verbs referencing "distance"
English Nouns
distance, Danish Nouns
distance, Romanian Nouns
distanță, Swedish Nouns
distans, Russian Nouns
дистанция, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
distanse, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
distanse.
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