PARAGON | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of paragon in English

(Definition of paragon from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of paragon

paragon
Such a paragon would notice that tables and text do not always agree, dangling participial clauses occur and certain modifiers ('highly,' 'all-important') are overworked.
The records of this farm are not a paragon of efficient and coherent bookkeeping.
Over the century or more that followed, it became both the object of bouts of legal repression and a paragon of popular culture.
Although it was not a paragon of subtlety, subsequent research showed it to be highly predictive.
The fax is the paragon of the barbichette : he systematically recopies, hence he cannot make the mistake first!
The copycat is the paragon of the good logical joke, which conveys a large part of the intuition of what is an identity axiom.
In terms of properties, they are the paragon of extrospection.
The program is therefore the paragon of the good question: a definite negative answer, and outstanding side effects.
However, they were not all paragons of virtue always acting in good faith for the 'common good'.
Domestically insulated from these pressures to achieve, women were called upon to become paragons of passive innocence, repositories of the complementary values of selflessness, docility, and unchanging goodness.
Pasa, usually considered the paragon of democracy and liberalism, appears here in a different light.
Yet this did not prevent her from noting women's frequent dissatisfaction in these roles, or the loss to society of stifling paragons of probity by restricting them to the home.
I was briefed by the hackney carriage trade, which is the paragon of private enterprise, never receiving 1p of public subsidy.
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However successful these paragons of mine are in producing new devices for alternative energy, as has been mentioned many times today, this takes time.
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They are great paragons of the relatively open market and low taxation.
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Translations of paragon

in Chinese (Traditional)
完人,盡善盡美的模範(或典型)…
in Chinese (Simplified)
完人,尽善尽美的模范(或典型)…
in Spanish
dechado, modelo…
in Portuguese
modelo, exemplo…
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modèle…
örnek kimse…
toonbeeld…
vzor…
forbillede…
teladan…
ตัวอย่างดีเลิศ…
mẫu mực…
wzór…
mönster, förebild…
contoh yg unggul…
das Muster…
mønster…
зразок…
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