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How to pronounce nonpareil in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms apotheosis, ideal, nonesuch, nonsuch, paragon, saint
Type of role model, model
Has types humdinger, jimdandy, crackerjack, class act, jimhickey
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Synonyms matchless, one, one and only, peerless, unmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled


the team's nonpareil center fielder.
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Type of chocolate candy
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Type of sweet, confection

Examples of nonpareil

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Credit those residual shivers to a nonchalant, nonpareil master of the creep-out.
From the time.com
Hank Jones, the jazz pianist nonpareil who died May 16 at 91, was many things.
From the newsweek.com
Their art was precise and nonpareil, but Twombly's is human and approachable.
From the economist.com
We were reminded again last week why Sen. Mitch McConnell is a politician nonpareil.
From the kentucky.com
Nonpareil Debbie Meyer, 18, broke her own record in the 400-meter freestyle.
From the time.com
Anyone unencumbered by the nonpareil joy of parenthood could do substantially worse.
From the guardian.co.uk
The theater is the nonpareil place for inward thought outwardly expressed.
From the time.com
Rhodes was, and remains, a fixer nonpareil of all that appears unfixable.
From the forbes.com
He is a nonpareil among the best and brightest I have known in six decades of journalism.
From the washingtontimes.com
More examples
  • Ideal: model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
  • Matchless: 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"
  • Colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies
  • A flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar
  • Nonpareils, or hundreds and thousands, are a decorative confection of tiny balls made with sugar and starch, traditionally an opaque white but now available in many colors. ...
  • A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon; A small pellet of colored sugar used as decoration on baked goods and candy; A small, flat chocolate drop covered with white pellets of sugar, similar to a comfit; (printing) A type size; nonpareille
  • (Nonpareils) A decorative confection of tiny sugar balls that come in many different colors and are used to decorate cookies.
  • (nonpareils) Also called jimmies and sprinkles. Nonpareils are tiny pieces of sugar candy, normally round or elongated, coated in a chocolate or a colored sugar topping. They are commonly used to decorate the tops of cakes, cookies, and pastries.
  • A tiny hard candy used to decorate cookies, candy, cakes, etc..