long-distance (comparative longer-distance, superlative longest-distance)

1. Over a great length or distance.

   He is a long-distance runner.

2. Referring to a non-local telephone call; a toll call.

   The hotel does not allow for long-distance phone calls.

3. Referring to a romantic relationship: between two people with a considerable distance between them.

   They are in a long-distance relationship.

   • 2009, Wesley L. Ford, How to Pick a Lover: For Women Who Want to Win at Love, page 176:

     Long-distance lovers are often not too sure just what they are feeling. Worse, they are often not too sure what their absent playmates want them to be feeling.

• short-distance

• German: Langstrecke

• French: interurbain
• German: fern

• German: fern