Usually means: Having no equal; unrivaled peer.
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  1. nonpareil: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nonpareil: Merriam-Webster
  3. nonpareil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nonpareil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nonpareil: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nonpareil: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nonpareil, nonpareil: Wordnik
  8. nonpareil: Wiktionary
  9. nonpareil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nonpareil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nonpareil: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Nonpareil, nonpareil: Dictionary.com
  13. nonpareil: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Nonpareil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Nonpareil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. nonpareil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. nonpareil: Rhymezone
  18. Nonpareil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. nonpareil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. nonpareil: FreeDictionary.org
  21. nonpareil: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. nonpareil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. nonpareil: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nonpareil: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nonpareil: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. nonpareil: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nonpareil, nonpareil: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nonpareil: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (frequently postpositive) Unequalled, unrivalled; unique.
noun:  (countable) A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.
noun:  (countable, biology)
noun:  The blue underwing or Clifden nonpareil (Catocala fraxini), a species of moth distributed across the Palearctic; also (obsolete) any of a number of moths of other species.
noun:  (chiefly Australia, archaic) In full nonpareil parrot: an eastern rosella, of species Platycercus eximius, a rosella (parrot) native to southeastern Australia.
noun:  (chiefly US) A painted bunting (Passerina ciris), a brightly-coloured finch native to North America.
noun:  (archaic) In full nonpareil apple: an apple tasting both sweet and tart which ripens very late in the season; also, the tree producing this fruit.
noun:  (countable, chiefly US, cooking)
noun:  (archaic) Any of various types of small sweets.
noun:  (by extension, dated) A small pellet of white or coloured sugar used as decoration on baked goods and candy.
noun:  (by extension) A small, flat chocolate drop covered with such pellets of sugar, similar to a comfit.
noun:  (by extension) A caper (“pickled edible flower bud”) of the smallest size.
noun:  (uncountable, typography, chiefly historical) A size of type between ruby and emerald (or, in the United States, between agate and minion), standardized as 6-point; (countable) a slug of this size.

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