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paragon

/ˈparəɡ(ə)n

noun

1A person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality: it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous...

This, after all, is the same industry that last year spent $1.7 billion on TV ads promoting its products and painting itself as a paragon of virtue and compassion.
Collins may not have been a paragon of virtue but he deserves better than to be remembered by future generations as a ruthless, self-serving and power-hungry meglomaniac.
Marigold means well in her vocation, but her strength of character and reputation as a paragon of all virtues isolates her from the reality of messy, suffering, worrying, humanity.

1.1A person or thing viewed as a model of excellence: your cook is a paragon...

Left wing provocateurs whose work would be dismissed as uninteresting or merely crude if it were apolitical or as a sociological freak show if it were right wing tend to be discussed as paragons of graphic design excellence.
In a country where universities emphasise competitive sports sometimes even more than academics, Notre Dame, in Indiana, was long the paragon of undergraduate football excellence.
These films may not be shining paragons of filmmaking excellence, but they are exciting and contain great action scenes - and that's exactly what they aspire to be.

Synonyms

perfect example, shining example, good example, model, epitome, archetype, ideal, exemplar, nonpareil, paradigm, embodiment, personification, quintessence, standard, prototype, apotheosis, the crème de la crème, the beau idéal, acme;

jewel, gem, flower, angel, treasure;

a perfect example of its kind

informal one in a million, the bee's knees, something else, the tops

archaic a nonesuch

1.2A perfect diamond of 100 carats or more.The number of perfect large diamonds, called paragons, is very small; and so we read, "Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called" (1 Cor. 1:26)....

Exceptionally large and beautiful stones, the so-called solitaires, paragons, or nonpareils, have, corresponding to the rarity of their occurrence, an exceptional value, which is subject to no rules and is governed solely by the special circumstances of the case.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from obsolete French, from Italian paragone 'touchstone to try good (gold) from bad', from medieval Greek parakonē 'whetstone'.

A paragon ‘a person or thing regarded as a perfect example’ is from an obsolete French word, from Italian paragone a ‘touchstone to try good gold from bad’, which came from Medieval Greek parakonē ‘whetstone’.

单词	paragon
释义	paragon /ˈparəɡ(ə)n / noun 1A person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality: it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous... This, after all, is the same industry that last year spent $1.7 billion on TV ads promoting its products and painting itself as a paragon of virtue and compassion. Collins may not have been a paragon of virtue but he deserves better than to be remembered by future generations as a ruthless, self-serving and power-hungry meglomaniac. Marigold means well in her vocation, but her strength of character and reputation as a paragon of all virtues isolates her from the reality of messy, suffering, worrying, humanity. 1.1A person or thing viewed as a model of excellence: your cook is a paragon... Left wing provocateurs whose work would be dismissed as uninteresting or merely crude if it were apolitical or as a sociological freak show if it were right wing tend to be discussed as paragons of graphic design excellence. In a country where universities emphasise competitive sports sometimes even more than academics, Notre Dame, in Indiana, was long the paragon of undergraduate football excellence. These films may not be shining paragons of filmmaking excellence, but they are exciting and contain great action scenes - and that's exactly what they aspire to be. Synonyms perfect example, shining example, good example, model, epitome, archetype, ideal, exemplar, nonpareil, paradigm, embodiment, personification, quintessence, standard, prototype, apotheosis, the crème de la crème, the beau idéal, acme; jewel, gem, flower, angel, treasure; a perfect example of its kind informal one in a million, the bee's knees, something else, the tops archaic a nonesuch 1.2A perfect diamond of 100 carats or more.The number of perfect large diamonds, called paragons, is very small; and so we read, "Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called" (1 Cor. 1:26).... Exceptionally large and beautiful stones, the so-called solitaires, paragons, or nonpareils, have, corresponding to the rarity of their occurrence, an exceptional value, which is subject to no rules and is governed solely by the special circumstances of the case. Origin Mid 16th century: from obsolete French, from Italian paragone 'touchstone to try good (gold) from bad', from medieval Greek parakonē 'whetstone'. A paragon ‘a person or thing regarded as a perfect example’ is from an obsolete French word, from Italian paragone a ‘touchstone to try good gold from bad’, which came from Medieval Greek parakonē ‘whetstone’. Rhymes Aragon, tarragon
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