"social distance" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-social distance.wav [US] Forms: social distances [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} social distance (plural social distances)
  1. (sociology) The distance between different social groups, e.g. in terms of class, ethnicity, gender-identity, sexual-identity, etc. Categories (topical): Sociology Translations (distance between social groups): 社會距離 (Chinese Mandarin), 社会距离 (shèhuì jùlí) (Chinese Mandarin), sosiaalinen etäisyys (Finnish), სოციალური მანძილი (socialuri manʒili) (Georgian), სოციალური დისტანცია (socialuri disṭancia) (Georgian), pembatasan sosial (Indonesian), penjarakan sosial (Malay), dûrahiya civakî [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), khoảng cách xã hội (Vietnamese), sự cách ly xã hội (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-social_distance-en-noun-c~f61q57 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 67 20 13 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 64 17 19 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 64 18 18 Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology Disambiguation of 'distance between social groups': 84 16
  2. (proxemics) An appropriate distance for interactions among acquaintances during epidemics. Translations (appropriate distance for interactions among acquaintances during epidemics): social afstand [common-gender] (Danish), social distance [common-gender] (Danish), პიროვნებათშორისი დისტანცია (ṗirovnebatšorisi disṭancia) (Georgian), სოციალური დისტანცია (socialuri disṭancia) (Georgian), സാമൂഹിക അകലം (sāmūhika akalaṁ) (Malayalam), སྤྱི་ཚོགས་བར་ཐག (spyi tshogs bar thag) (Tibetan), སྤྱི་ཚོགས་དང་ཐག་རྒྱང་རིང་པོ (spyi tshogs dang thag rgyang ring po) (Tibetan), sosyal mesafe (Turkish), khoảng cách xã hội (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-social_distance-en-noun-~x1aDhhD Disambiguation of 'appropriate distance for interactions among acquaintances during epidemics': 11 89

Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-social distance.wav [US] Forms: social distances [present, singular, third-person], social distancing [participle, present], social distanced [participle, past], social distanced [past]
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  1. (proxemics) To maintain a certain distance between at least two people to contain the spread of an infectious disease. Categories (topical): Coronavirus Related terms: social distancing (english: disease control), socially distant (english: disease control) Translations (to maintain a certain distance between at least two people to contain the spread of an infectious disease): tạo khoảng cách xã hội (Vietnamese), cách ly xã hội (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-social_distance-en-verb-NMWMKbgM Disambiguation of Coronavirus: 34 9 57

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      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to maintain a certain distance between at least two people to contain the spread of an infectious disease",
      "word": "tạo khoảng cách xã hội"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to maintain a certain distance between at least two people to contain the spread of an infectious disease",
      "word": "cách ly xã hội"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "en:social distance"
  ],
  "word": "social distance"
}

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