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English

Etymology

From {{term|nonpareil||unequalled|lang=frm}} (obsolete in French), from & .

Noun

A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.
A small, flat chocolate drop covered with white pellets of sugar.

fr:nonpareil te:nonpareil vi:nonpareil zh:nonpareil

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Nonpareil \Non`pa*reil"\, a. [F., from non not + pareil equal,
fr. LL. pariculus, dim. of L. par equal. See Non, and
Pair, Peer.]
Having no equal; peerless.
[1913 Webster]

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Nonpareil \Non`pa*reil"\, n. [See Nonpareil, a. ]
1. Something of unequaled excellence; a peerless thing or
person; a nonesuch; -- often used as a name.
[1913 Webster]

2. [F. nonpareille.] (Print.) A size of type next smaller
than minion and next larger than agate (or ruby).
[1913 Webster]

Note: This line is printed in the type called nonpareil.
[1913 Webster]

3. (Zool.)
(a) A beautifully colored finch (Passerina ciris),
native of the Southern United States. The male has the
head and neck deep blue, rump and under parts bright
red, back and wings golden green, and the tail bluish
purple. Called also painted bunting and {painted
finch}.
(b) Any other similar bird of the same genus.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

4. (Cookery) A small sphere, less than 1 mm diamter, of
colored sugar, used to decorate confections; -- usually
used in the plural as though the name of a substance; as,
sprinkled with nonpareils.
[PJC]

5. pl. A type of candy chocolate consisting of a small flat
disk of chocolate, less than one inch diameter, having
nonpareils[4] sprinkled on the top; as, she ate a box of
nonpareils at the movie.
[PJC]

WordNet nonpareil
adj : eminent beyond or above comparison; "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"; "unrivaled mastery of
her art" [syn: matchless, one(a), one and only(a),
peerless, unmatched, unmatchable, unrivaled, unrivalled]
n 1: model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no
equal [syn: ideal, paragon, saint, apotheosis, nonesuch,
nonsuch]
2: colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and
cookies
3: a flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar

Moby Dictionary
A per se , ace , beau ideal , boss , champion , chief , choice , chosen ,
commander , cream , dean , elect , elite , exemplar , fat , flower ,
fugleman , genius , good example , head , higher-up , ideal , jewel ,
laureate , leader , man of men , master , mirror , model , ne plus ultra ,
nonesuch , optimum , paragon , pattern , phoenix , pick , prime ,
principal , prize , prodigy , queen , quintessence , ruler , select ,
senior , shining example , standard , star , superior , superlative ,
superman , superstar , the best , the best ever , the greatest ,
the most , the tops , the very best , top dog , virtuoso

FOLDOC Nonpareil

One of five pedagogical languages based on {Markov
algorithm}s, 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.