1. remote - Noun
2. remote - Adjective
3. remote - Verb
5. remote - Adjective Satellite
Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.
Not agreeing; alien; foreign.
Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
Separate; abstracted.
Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
Separated by intervals greater than usual.
Source: Webster's dictionarySpace isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. Fred Hoyle
I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career. I still wanted to be an agronomist and work in some remote corner of Russia after the war. I could not suppose that my country would change, and I would. Aleksandr Vasilevsky
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it. Blaise Pascal
The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men seek for it in what is remote. Japanese Proverb
The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men seek for it in what is remote. Chinese Proverb
When you are poor, you will have no visitors even if you live in a crowded city; once you become rich, you'll be surprised by visitors from alleged relatives even if you live in a remote location. Chinese Proverb