DISTINGUISHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does distinguished mean? 

• DISTINGUISHED (adjective)
  The adjective DISTINGUISHED has 2 senses:

1. (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation

2. used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person

  Familiarity information: DISTINGUISHED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISTINGUISHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation

Context example:

our distinguished professor

Similar:

important; of import (of great significance or value)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person

Synonyms:

distinguished; grand; imposing; magisterial

Context example:

she reigned in magisterial beauty

Similar:

dignified (having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance)

 Context examples 

This tumor should be distinguished from separate hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma arising in the same liver.

(Combined Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Cholangiocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A distinct and virulent form of DENGUE characterized by thrombocytopenia and hemoconcentration (grades I and II) and distinguished by a positive tourniquet test.

(Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Herniating or protruding into periprostatic fat needs to be distinguished from true invasion.

(Combined Epithelial / Stromal Atypical Hyperplasia of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A rare, very well differentiated cervical mucinous adenocarcinoma in which most of the neoplastic glands cannot be distinguished from the normal endocervical glands.

(Cervical Mucinous Adenocarcinoma, Minimal Deviation Variant, NCI Thesaurus)

It contains two groups LCM-LASSA COMPLEX VIRUSES and TACARIBE COMPLEX VIRUSES, which are distinguished by antigenic relationships and geographic distribution.

(Arenavirus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Development of the individual cell, as distinguished from phylogeny, which is evolutionary development of the species.

(Cell Ontogeny, NCI Thesaurus)

"Will no one come?" it cried; and then, while the staggering and stamping went on wildly, I distinguished through plank and plaster:—Rochester!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

According to the prevailing cells type, three major variants can be distinguished: fibrillary astrocytoma, gemistocytic astrocytoma, and protoplasmic astrocytoma.

(Diffuse Astrocytoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

And I confess, it was not without some pleasure, that I found myself able to trace the particular features, by which certain families are distinguished, up to their originals.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Before Sir Walter had reached this point, Anne's eyes had caught the right direction, and distinguished Captain Wentworth standing among a cluster of men at a little distance.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)