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adjective
1.
having no equal; peerless.
noun
2.
a person or thing having no equal.
3.
a small pellet of colored sugar for decorating candy, cake, and cookies.
4.
a flat, round, bite-sized piece of chocolate covered with this sugar.
6.
Printing.
a.
a 6-point type.
b.
a slug occupying 6 points of space between lines.
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Nonpareil
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Example Sentences
- The room itself was by all accounts a treasure nonpareil.
- The quality of ingredients and cooking style are nonpareil.
- The food wasn't special, but the atmosphere was nonpareil.
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Word Origin & History
nonpareil
1477 (adj.), "having no equal," from M.Fr. nonpareil "unequalled," from non- "not" + pareil "equal." The noun meaning "an unequaled person or thing" is from 1593; first applied to a kind of candy 1697. As the name of a printing type (6 point size) it is attested from 1647.
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Computing Dictionary
Nonpareil definition
One of five pedagogical languages based on Markov algorithms, used in ["Nonpareil, a Machine Level Machine Independent Language for the Study of Semantics", B. Higman, ULICS Intl Report No ICSI 170, U London (1968)]. The others were Brilliant, Diamond, Pearl and Ruby.
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