distingue
See also: distingué
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɪsˈtæŋɡeɪ/, /dɪstæŋˈɡeɪ/
Alternative forms
Adjective
distingue (comparative more distingue, superlative most distingue)
- Fashionably distinguished or elegant; having an air of superiority.
- 1873, Charles Reade, A Simpleton, page 105:
- but when the bill came in at Christmas, for that five minutes' labor and distingue touch, she charged one pound eight.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Wrecker, page 158:
- And she likes you so much, and thinks you so accomplished and distingue-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!
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Translations
fashionably distinguished or elegant
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French
Verb
distingue
- first-person singular present indicative of distinguer
- third-person singular present indicative of distinguer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of distinguer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of distinguer
- second-person singular imperative of distinguer
Latin
Middle English
Verb
to distingue
- To distinguish.
- 1430-1450, Robert Steele (ed.); 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
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of distinguir
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of distinguir
Spanish
Verb
distingue
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of distinguir.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of distinguir.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of distinguir.
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