Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

short-distance

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.73 in modern English

Syllables: short--dis-tance
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to movement, travel, transport, or communication covering only a relatively small spatial extent.

Example Sentences

"I suppose that nowadays the red-faced farmers, whose invariable topic (so a friendly guard who understood Welsh told me) was sheep and their prices, find their own cars or the buses more convenient than a Western Region main line for their short-distance peregrinations to market."
"Short-distance rail travel in this district has been a doubtful proposition ever since buses were introduced."
"The PM hit the headlines again for taking short-distance air travel rather than rail."

Inflected Forms

shorter-distance (comparative) shortest-distance (superlative)

Antonyms

long-distance

Questions

What does short-distance mean?: Relating to movement, travel, transport, or communication covering only a relatively small spatial extent.

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