1. (noun)distance the property created by the space between two objects or points
2. (noun)distance a distant region "I could see it in the distance"
3. (noun)distance, length size of the gap between two places
"the distance from New York to Chicago"; "he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points"
5. (noun)distance, space the interval between two times "the distance from birth to death"; "it all happened in the space of 10 minutes"
6. (noun)distance a remotepoint in time "if that happens it will be at some distance in the future"; "at a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details"
7. (verb)distance keep at a distance "we have to distance ourselves from these events in order to continue living"
8. (verb)outdistance, outstrip, distance go far ahead of
"He outdistanced the other runners"