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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Remote

/(r?-m?t")/ · Re·mote · IPA /[ɹɪˈmoʊt]/
01 a. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
  1. 1.
    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.” Shak.
    Remote from men, with God he passed his days.” — Parnell.
  2. 2.
    Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.
  3. 3.
    Separated by intervals greater than usual.(Bot.)