nonpareil
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pəˈrɛl 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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| —n | |
| 1. | a person or thing that is unsurpassed or unmatched; peerless example |
| 2. | (formerly) a size of printers' type equal to 6 point |
| 3. | (US) a small bead of coloured sugar used to decorate cakes, biscuits, etc |
| 4. | chiefly (US) a flat round piece of chocolate covered with this sugar |
| —adj | |
| 5. | having no match or equal; peerless |
| [C15: from French, from | |
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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.
Example sentences
The quality of ingredients and cooking style are nonpareil.
The food wasn't special, but the atmosphere was nonpareil.
These grim situations attracted relentless media attention: family plus snow plus stranded equals human-interest story nonpareil.
The room itself was by all accounts a treasure nonpareil.
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