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# distinguished

«distinguished» in Mova's school dictionary: **famous and respected because of important work: «a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (distinguished; more distinguished); verb past form of distinguish (distinguish, distinguishes, distinguished, distinguishing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Distinguished means famous and respected because of important work: «a distinguished scientist». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distinguished/#m1)

2) Distinguished means looking important and dignified, often an older person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distinguished/#m2)

3) (verb) If you distinguished one thing from another, you saw or showed the difference between them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distinguished/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In formal texts and speeches it praises important people. As a verb in science, you distinguish between groups by their features. Phrases: «distinguished guest», «distinguished from», «distinguished career».

### examples

- A distinguished writer visited our school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distinguished/#x1)
- Please welcome our distinguished guests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distinguished/#x2)
- Grandpa looks distinguished in his grey suit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distinguished/#x3)
- Can you distinguish a frog from a toad? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distinguished/#x4)
- The twins could hardly be distinguished from each other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distinguished/#x5)
- She had a distinguished career as a doctor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distinguished/#x6)
- And who were these distinguished guests? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distinguished/#x7)

### note

Formal. «Distinguish between A and B» or «distinguish A from B». The verb is regular. Silent u sound: dis-TING-gwisht.

### In the corpora

- ["Distinguished" said of an older man often means grey-haired or older-looking, in a good way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «distinguished» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distinguished/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.