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/rɪmˈoʊt/ /rimˈoʊt/ Listen

adjective

Remote adj. (compar. remoter; superl. remotest)

Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands. "Places remote enough are in Bohemia." "Remote from men, with God he passed his days."

Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; in various figurative uses. Specifically:

(a)

Not agreeing; alien; foreign. "All these propositions, how remote soever from reason."

(b)

Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.

(c)

Separate; abstracted. "Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies."

(d)

Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant. "From the effect to the remotest cause."

(e)

Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.

(Bot.) Separated by intervals greater than usual.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Remote" Quotes from Famous Books

... development in our own day, when horses and sails are ceasing to have any practical use, so likewise patriotism has become a fanatical cult at the very moment when it has ceased to be a factor in civilisation. It is the fate of the Epigoni. In remote ages it was good, it was needful, that individual egoism should be broken by the grouping of human beings in tribes and clans. The patriotism of the towns was justified when it victoriously resisted the egoism of the robber barons. The patriotism ...

— The Forerunners • Romain Rolland

... required by the dozen, both for the Western Front (for which the Somme and Beaumont Hamel Offensives were chiefly responsible) and for the Eastern Front. Then there was the trying coastguard work with its trench-digging excursions to Lunan Bay—work which probably helped to avert a danger not so remote as we then imagined. ...

— The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) - Record of War Service, 1914-1918 • Various

... would be faintest and we could judge a star's distance by its brilliancy. This is not the case, however. Some of the more brilliant stars are far more distant than some of the fainter ones. There are stars near and remote and an apparently faint star may in reality be larger and more brilliant than a star of the first magnitude. Vega, for instance, is infinitely farther away from us than the sun, yet its brightness is more than 50 times that of the sun. Polaris, still farther away, has 100 times ...

— Lectures in Navigation • Ernest Gallaudet Draper

... of me while a baby, and afterwards untill I had reached my eighth year devolved on a servant of my mother's, who had accompanied us in our retirement for that purpose. I was placed in a remote part of the house, and only saw my aunt at stated hours. These occurred twice a day; once about noon she came to my nursery, and once after her dinner I was taken to her. She never caressed me, and seemed all the ...

— Mathilda • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

... were to be the servant of justice, as Mr. Wright had advised, what was I to do? These tenants had been Grimshawed and were being Grimshawed out of the just fruits of their toil by the feudal chief whose remote ancestor had been a king's favorite. For half a moment I watched the wavering needle of my compass ...

— The Light in the Clearing • Irving Bacheller

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