English translation of "la personnalité idoine" - "suitable person/personality"

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183 months ago

Geea (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Arts / Entertainment
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	la personnalité idoine
Context:	En 1968, [nom] devint réellement la personnalité idoine pour [nom d’orchestre].
Keywords:	I'm thinking "proper" or "right" or even "suitable", but I am not sure that captures the full meaning of "idoine", so I need other ideas. TIA (thanks in advance).

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183 months ago

wrote:

the most proper or suitable or relevant personality

183 months ago

wrote:

suitable person/personality

My comment:

Found it translated several times this way when I googled.

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183 months ago

Sean O´Neill wrote:

ideal?

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183 months ago

JIGGSLAW- Coordinator of the Linguist-Lawyers Network wrote:

I agree. In this particular context, as I understand it ("idoine") is similar to nonpareil , perfect or unrivalled rather than suitable because suitable gives the idea of worthy, desirable or appropriate. There is a subtle difference for me. Source: Visual Thesaurus

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