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German
Pronunciation
Adjective
entlegen (strong nominative masculine singular entlegener, comparative entlegener, superlative am entlegensten)
- (also figurative) out-of-the-way
c. 1914, Franz Kafka, Der Prozess [The Trial], Berlin: Die Schmiede, published 1925:Ich habe sie in diesem Monat schon zweimal in entlegenen Straßen und immer mit einem andern Herrn gesehn.- I have already seen her twice this month in out-of-the-way streets, and always with a different man
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Further reading
- “entlegen” in Duden online
- “entlegen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “entlegen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon