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distingue

/dɪsˈtæŋɡeɪ/

distingue adjective: fashionably distinguished or elegant; having an air of superiority.

Adjective

distingue (comparative more distingue, superlative most distingue)

  1. Fashionably distinguished or elegant; having an air of superiority.
    • 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...1873, Charles Reade, chapter IX, in A Simpleton: A Story of the Day […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 57
    • 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.1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “In which Jim and I Take Different Ways”, in The Wrecker, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 179

distingue meaning in Tamil

distingue in Tamil

சிறப்புத் தோற்றம்

Forms of distingue

comparativemore distingue
superlativemost distingue
alternative formdistingué
alternative formdistinguee

Origin of distingue

From French distingué.

Questions about distingue

What does distingue mean?
Distingue means fashionably distinguished or elegant; having an air of superiority.
What is distingue in Tamil?
Distingue in Tamil is சிறப்புத் தோற்றம். See Distingue meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is distingue?
Distingue is an adjective.
How do you pronounce distingue?
Distingue is pronounced /dɪsˈtæŋɡeɪ/.

Words near distingue in the dictionary

  1. distinctors
  2. distinctual
  3. distinctually
  4. distincture
  5. Distington
  6. distingue
  7. distinguee
  8. distinguish
  9. distinguishabilities
  10. distinguishability
  11. distinguishable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: distingue (page history and authors); distingue (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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