Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person or thing without equal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Formerly, a person or thing such as to have no parallel; an extraordinary thing; a thing that has not its equal.
- noun Specifically— See blackseed, medic, and Medicago.
- noun Lychnis Chalcedonica.
- noun A variety of apple. Also spelled
nonsuch .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (
Medicago lupulina ), a variety of pottery clay, etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
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Examples
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Also of help is that my life is pretty well duplicated in NYC, so can forget about lots of toiletries and nonesuch, which is good since I need to schlepp plenty of books (= heavy, volume).
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2005
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A 'nonesuch' is something unrivalled, a paragon, or something like nothing else.
Jane Austen's World 2009
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A 'nonesuch' is something unrivalled, a paragon, or something like nothing else.
Jane Austen's World 2009
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More at www. nonesuch.com art "The Moderns" explores modernity in Irish visual art, including paintings by Mainie Jellett, experimental art by Brian O'Doherty and others.
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Once you installed it, you started making your. php pages and everything just worked. mod_perl on the other hand, gave you nonesuch.
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So if the libertarian answer is for me to wait for nonesuch health care charities to materialize from thin air, so that I can adequately compete and bring in US tax revenue and wages to US citizens, then, I am underwhelmed.
Some Libertarian Basics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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August 25, 2009 nonesuch mcSpluttershirts and the colonorectal imaging cameras
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August 25, 2009 nonesuch mcSpluttershirts and the colonorectal imaging cameras
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But there've been all sorts of other meals and nonesuch with people in town for the book fair, which are nice, but distracting from getting work done.
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2006
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This morning I went to the Biblioteca Nacional and got my carné de investigador (thanks for the tip, seanmcl!) allowing me access to the archives and nonesuch.
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2006
alexz commented on the word nonesuch
The black medic or black medick listed above refers to the plant Medicago Lupulina http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicago_lupulina
February 2, 2015