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  1. distinction: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. distinction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. distinction: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  4. distinction: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. Distinction, distinction: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. distinction: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  7. distinction: Wiktionary [home, info]
  8. distinction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  9. distinction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  10. distinction: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  11. Distinction, distinction: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. distinction: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  13. distinction: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. distinction: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  15. Distinction (law), Distinction (philosophy), Distinction (social), Distinction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  16. Distinction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  17. distinction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  18. distinction: Rhymezone [home, info]
  19. distinction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  20. distinction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  21. distinction: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  22. distinction: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  23. distinction: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  24. distinction: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  25. distinction: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  26. distinction: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distinction: Literary Criticism [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distinction: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distinction: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distinction: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (distinction)

noun:  a distinguishing difference ("He learned the distinction between gold and lead")
noun:  a distinguishing quality ("It has the distinction of being the cheapest restaurant in town")
noun:  a discrimination between things as different and distinct ("It is necessary to make a distinction between love and infatuation")
noun:  high status importance owing to marked superiority

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