| n. | 1. | Something of unequaled excellence; a peerless thing or person; a nonesuch; - often used as a name. |
| 2. | (Print.) A size of type next smaller than minion and next larger than agate (or ruby). | |
| 3. | (Zool.) 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 | |
| 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; | |
| 5. | 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; | |
| a. | 1. | Having no equal; peerless. |
| Noun | 1. | nonpareil - model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal |
| 2. | nonpareil - colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies | |
| 3. | nonpareil - a flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar | |
| Adj. | 1. | nonpareil - 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" |
| 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. |