Definition

1. Noun:
   • A great distance; a very long way: "dặm nghìn" is a literary and somewhat archaic term used to describe an immense geographical distance, often implying a journey or separation spanning thousands of miles.
   • A figurative vast separation: It can also metaphorically describe a significant gap in time, understanding, or emotional connection.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Quê hương anh cách đây dặm nghìn. (His homeland is a thousand miles away from here.)
  • Hai chúng tôi cách nhau dặm nghìn, khó lòng gặp lại. (We are separated by a great distance; it's hard to meet again.)

Advanced Usage

• "dặm nghìn vạn dặm": An intensified form emphasizing an even more immense, almost incalculable distance.
  • Tình cảm ấy, dù dặm nghìn vạn dặm cũng không phai. (That affection, even across ten thousand miles, will not fade.)

Variants and Related Words

• dặm ngàn: A direct variant with identical meaning and usage ("ngàn" being a synonym for "nghìn," both meaning "thousand").
• dặm: The base word meaning "mile" or "league" (a unit of distance).
• ngàn dặm / nghìn dặm: A more common modern phrasing with the same word order as English ("thousand miles").

Synonyms

• Khoảng cách xa xôi: A distant interval.
• Đường xa vạn dặm: A road of ten thousand miles (a set phrase for a very long journey).

Related Idioms

• Cách trở dặm nghìn: To be separated by a thousand miles of obstacles.
  • Vì cách trở dặm nghìn, họ đã lỡ nhịp duyên nhau. (Because they were separated by a thousand miles of obstacles, they missed their chance for love.)
• Dặm nghìn quan san: A thousand miles of mountain passes and frontiers (a poetic idiom emphasizing arduous, far-flung travel).
  • Dặm nghìn quan san, một lời hẹn ước. (Across a thousand miles of mountain passes, a single promise.)

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