abgelegen

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʔapɡəleːɡŋ̩/, /ˈʔapɡəleːɡən/
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Participle

abgelegen

  1. past participle of abliegen

Adjective

abgelegen (strong nominative masculine singular abgelegener, comparative abgelegener, superlative am abgelegensten)

  1. remote (distant or otherwise inaccessible)
    • 1873, Friedrich Nietzsche, Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinne:
      In irgend einem abgelegenen Winkel des in zahllosen Sonnensystemen flimmernd ausgegossenen Weltalls gab es einmal ein Gestirn, auf dem kluge Tiere das Erkennen erfanden.
      In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

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Further reading

  • abgelegen” in Duden online
  • abgelegen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache