long distance
Spanning many miles
Long distance describes communication or travel across a significant geographical span, typically between different cities, regions, or countries.
Before the internet era, long-distance phone calls incurred higher charges than local ones, making calling long distance a notable expense.
The term also characterizes relationships maintained across substantial distances: They dated long distance for two years before she moved.
In athletics, long-distance events like marathons test endurance over extended courses.
- milesLengths of 5,280 feet
- kilometersMetric distance units
- light-yearsUnits of astronomical distance
- parsecsDistance units for astronomy
- marathonLong-distance footrace
miles apart · homesickness · journey · phone call · calling card · video call · separation anxiety · yearning · pen pal · longing · love letters · estrangement · telecommunication · time zones · time difference · satellite · intercontinental · nostalgia
- telecommunicationscell phone, cellphone, signals, cellular network, telephone calls
- distance phrasesstone's throw, within reach, far away, nearby, close by
- phone servicesvoicemail, caller ID, call waiting, call forwarding, call blocking
- phone termslandline, country code, area code, voicemail, caller ID
- rom-comrom-com, romantic comedy, meet cute, meet-cute, love triangle
- "Long" wordslonghorn, longevity
long distanceshort distance
Small space between points
nearby · local · short-range · proximate · neighboring
long distancelocal
Of this area
in-person · face-to-face · local call · colocated · nearby
long distancesprint
Brief maximum-speed effort
short distance · dash · sprinting · short-distance · short-range
long, distance, distant, length, longer, lengthy, prolonged, lengthen, elongate