PARAGON Synonyms

• something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies

• a standard or typical example

• a brief abstract (as of an article or book)

• far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree

• surpassing what is common or usual or expected

• deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence

• something to be imitated

• a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process

• a type of product

• a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor

• representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)

• something to be imitated

• someone worthy of imitation

• a representative form or pattern

• a woman who wears clothes to display fashions

• the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)

• worthy of imitation

• plan or create according to a model or models

• form in clay, wax, etc

• assume a posture as for artistic purposes

• display (clothes) as a mannequin

• create a representation or simulation of

• construct a model in the likeness of

• most favorable conditions or greatest degree or amount possible under given circumstances

• most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied

• being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish

• a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)

• without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

• precisely accurate or exact

• make perfect or complete

• the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies

• the purest and most concentrated essence of something

• the most typical example or representative of a type

• conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind

• established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence

• conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers

• a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated

• the ideal in terms of which something can be judged

• a board measure = 1980 board feet

• the value behind the money in a monetary system

• an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support)

• any distinctive flag

• commonly used or supplied

• regularly and widely used or sold

• model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal

• the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god)

• a material effigy that is worshipped

• someone who is adored blindly and excessively

• an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept

• model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal

• model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal

• 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

• eminent beyond or above comparison

• model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal

• the state of being without a flaw or defect

• an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept

• the act of making something perfect

• a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization

• person of exceptional holiness

• model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal

• hold sacred

• declare (a dead person) to be a saint

• an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept