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Definition: Nonpareil |
NonpareilAdjective1. 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". Noun1. Model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nonpareil" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references) |
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Computing | Nonpareil 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. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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Synonyms: NonpareilSynonyms: matchless (adj), one and only(a) (adj), one(a) (adj), peerless (adj), unmatchable (adj), unmatched (adj), unrivaled (adj), unrivalled (adj), apotheosis (n), ideal (n), nonesuch (n), nonsuch (n), paragon (n), saint (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inexpedience | Super-excellence, supereminence; superiority; perfection; coup de maitre; masterpiece, chef d'ouvre, prime, flower, cream, elite, pick, A, nonesuch, nonpareil, creme de la creme, flower of the flock, salt of the earth; champion; prodigy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nonpareil |
| English words defined with "nonpareil": Bastard type ♦ Ionic type ♦ matchless, Minionette ♦ one, one and only ♦ peerless ♦ Reglet ♦ unmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled. (references) |
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| "Nonpareil" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Nonpareil" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "nonpareil": nonpareil person. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
the daily nonpareil | 93 |
nonpareil | 68 |
council bluff nonpareil | 46 |
nonpareil online | 7 |
council bluff daily nonpareil | 7 |
com daily nonpareil | 3 |
newspaper nonpareil | 3 |
bluff council newspaper nonpareil | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nonpareil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | përsosuri (fineness, Nonsuch, transcendence), lloj mollash (Jonathan), ideal (ideal, it, mental), i pakrahasueshëm (incomparable, matchless, surpassing, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivalled), i përsosur (consummate, crowned, fine, flawless, indefectible, slap up). (various references) | |
Arabic | لا شبيه له (incomparable, without parallel), شىء لا مثيل له, شخص فيد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уникум, сорт ябълка, нонпарей, нещо несравнимо, безподобен човек (nonesuch, out-and-outer), безподобен (incomparable, inimitable, matchless, peerless). (various references) | |
French | sans égal, chose sans pareil, chose incomparable. (various references) | |
German | unvergleichliche (incomparably, peerlessly, unmatched), unerreichter meister, unerreicht (unachieved, unattained, unequaled, unequalled, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivaled, unrivalled, unrivalledly, untouched). (various references) | |
Greek | απαράμιλλοσ (incomparable, matchless, nonesuch, peerless, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivalled). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שאין "ומ" לו (incomparable). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nem létezõ dolog, párját ritkító (matchless, unparalleled), páratlan dolog, páratlan (equitable, impair, impaired, inimitable, matchless, nonesuch, odd, peerless, singular, superlative, supreme, uneven, unexampled, unique, unmatched, unrivalled, unsurpassed). (various references) | |
Italian | unico (alone, isolated, lonely, one, one only, only, reclusive, single, sole, unescorted, unique), persona o cosa impareggiabile, impareggiabile (incomparable, matchless, peerless, unmatched). (various references) | |
Manx | nomprayl, gyn sheshey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onpareilnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | variedade de maçã (pippin), tralhão ou tarrascas, sem rival (matchless, peerless, unrivalled), sem par (matchless), sem igual (alone, matchless, oner, peerless, unapproachable, unbeatable, unequalled, unexampled, unexcelled, unique, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed), incomparável (absolute, matchless, peerless, surpassing, unapproachable, unequalled, unique, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivalled), espécie de pardinha. (various references) | |
Russian | верх совершенства (nonesuch, nonsuch, pink of perfection), нонпарель, несравненный (incomparable, inimitable, matchless, peerless, without peer), непревзойденный (inimitable, matchless, second to none, unequaled, unequalled, unexcelled, unrivaled, unrivalled, unsurpassed), бесподобный (matchless, peerless, unequalled, unmatched, unparalleled), идеал (beau ideal, ideal, it). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nonparel, neuporediv (incomparable, matchless), nenadmašna vrsta, kome nema ravnog. (various references) | |
Spanish | sin par (matchless, peerless, surpassing, unmatched), persona sin pareja, persona sin par, cosa sin par. (various references) | |
Swedish | unik sak, makalös (incomparable, matchless, peerless, surpassing, unequalled, unexampled, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivalled). (various references) | |
Turkish | tablet şekerleme, emsalsiz (incomparable, matchless, peerless, unequalled, unmatched), eşsiz insan (nonesuch), eşsiz (heavenly, in a class of one's own, incomparable, inimitable, irreplaceable, matchless, nonesuch, peerless, singular, unequalled, unexampled, unexcelled, unique, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivaled, unrivalled, unsurpassed, without a peer), benzersiz şey (nonesuch, unique thing), benzersiz (in a class of one's own, inimitable, matchless, nonesuch, unequalled, unexampled, unique, unmatched, unparalleled), altı puntoluk harf. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ідеал (ideal, nonesuch), чарівне, нонпарель. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người không ai sánh kịp (nonsesuch, nonsuch), người có một không hai (nonsesuch, nonsuch, oner), vật không gì sánh kịp, vật có một không hai (nonsesuch, nonsuch), vô song (incomparable, matchless, peerless, unequalled, unexampled, unparalleted, unrivalled), không sánh được, không bì được. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nonpareil": nonpareils. (additional references) | |
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"Nonpareil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nonparel, nonpariel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-n-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: pelorian. | |
-2 letters: aileron, alienor, opaline, pannier, peloria, plainer, planner, praline, proline. | |
-3 letters: aliner, alpine, eolian, eonian, inaner, lanner, larine, linear, loaner, nailer, narine, neroli, nonpar, online, orpine, palier, panier, parole, penial, pennia, pineal, pinnae, pinnal, pinner, pinole, planer, prolan, rapine, reloan, renail, replan, ronnel. | |
-4 letters: alien, aline, aloin, alone, anile, anion, anole, apron, ariel. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-n-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: nalorphine, nonpareils. | |
+2 letters: nalorphines. | |
+3 letters: isoprenaline, nonempirical, nonspherical, overplanning, overplanting, replantation. | |
+4 letters: antipersonnel, convertiplane, interpersonal, interpolating, interpolation, intrapersonal, isoprenalines, landownership, nonperishable, nonreciprocal, personalising, personalizing, predominantly, preganglionic, replantations, septentrional, supernational. | |
+5 letters: convertiplanes, hyperinflation, interpellation, interpolations, landownerships, nonoperational, nonoverlapping, nonperishables, nonpolarizable, nonreciprocals, overexplaining, pararosaniline, porcelainizing, presentational, reimplantation, rhinencephalon, sulfinpyrazone, unprofessional. | |
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