what does nonpareil mean?
NONPAREIL as NOUN
- Meaning
- a flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar
Hypernyms(s) nonpareil is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
- Meaning
- colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies
Hypernyms(s) nonpareil is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
- Meaning
- model of excellence or perfection of a kind
- one having no equal
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Hypernyms(s) nonpareil is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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NONPAREIL as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- eminent beyond or above comparison
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- matchless beauty
- the team’’s nonpareil center fielder
- she’’s one girl in a million
- the one and only Muhammad Ali
- a peerless scholar
- infamy unmatched in the Western world
- wrote with unmatchable clarity
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