Definition of "long-distance" []

• Covering a long distance: a long-distance runner; operating under long-distance supervision. (adjective)
• Of, relating to, or being telephone communication to a distant station: a long-distance call. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "And what, for us, is called a long-distance relationship?"
• "This, friends, is called a long-distance relationship."
• "“Cannie!” he said, sounding happy to hear from me, and not at all alarmed by the fact that I was calling long-distance in what was, for me, the wee hours of the morning."