distingue

See also: distingué

English

Alternative forms

• distingué
• distinguee

Etymology

From French distingué.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈtæŋɡeɪ/, /dɪstæŋˈɡeɪ/

Adjective

distingue (comparative more distingue, superlative most distingue)

1. Fashionably distinguished or elegant; having an air of superiority.
   • 1873, Charles Reade, chapter IX, in A Simpleton: A Story of the Day […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 57:

     By the time the blue dress was tried on, Madame Cie had, with the aid of a few pins, plaits, and a bow of blue ribbon, transformed the half-lace shawl into one of the smartest and distingué things imaginable; but when the bill came in at Christmas, for that five minutes' labor and distingué touch, she charged one pound eight.

   • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “In which Jim and I Take Different Ways”, in The Wrecker, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 179:

     And she likes you so much, and thinks you so accomplished and distingué-looking, and was just as set as I was to have you for best man.

   • 2001, Emile Gaboriau, Mystery of Oricval, page 158:

     It was very noble, very distingue, to ruin one's self without knowing how!

Translations

fashionably distinguished or elegant

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• Finnish: tyylikäs (fi)
• French: distingué (fr)
• German: vornehm (de), di­s­tin­guiert (scholarly)
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• Portuguese: distinto (pt)
• Russian: изы́сканный (ru) (izýskannyj), изя́щный (ru) (izjáščnyj), то́нкий (ru) (tónkij), утончённый (ru) (utončónnyj)
• Spanish: distinguido (es)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• distinctive

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

distingue

1. inflection of distinguer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Galician

Verb

distingue

1. inflection of distinguir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Verb

distingue

1. third-person singular present indicative of distinguere

Anagrams

• disgiunte

Latin

Verb

distingue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of distinguō

Middle English

Verb

to distingue

1. To distinguish.
   • 1430-1450, Robert Steele (ed.) with Early English Text Society, Alexander, The Earliest Arithmetics in English (1973), page 51:

     ... some vsen forto distingue the nombre by threes

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Portuguese

Verb

distingue

1. inflection of distinguir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

distingue

1. inflection of distinguir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative