LONG DISTANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does long distance mean? 

• LONG DISTANCE (noun)
  The noun LONG DISTANCE has 1 sense:

1. a telephone call made outside the local calling area

  Familiarity information: LONG DISTANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONG DISTANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A telephone call made outside the local calling area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

long-distance call; long distance; trunk call

Context example:

I talked to her by long distance

Hypernyms ("long distance" is a kind of...):

call; phone call; telephone call (a telephone connection)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "long distance"):

toll call (a long-distance telephone call at charges above a local rate)

 Context examples 

They were a long distance off, but the Wicked Witch was angry to find them in her country; so she blew upon a silver whistle that hung around her neck.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The fight had opened at long distance, and the rifles were cracking steadily.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I tried four times; finally an exasperated central told me the wire was being kept open for long distance from Detroit.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)