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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A person or thing without equal.
  2. n. See black medic.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Formerly, a person or thing such as to have no parallel; an extraordinary thing; a thing that has not its equal.
  2. n. Specifically— See blackseed, medic, and Medicago.
  3. n. Lychnis Chalcedonica.
  4. n. A variety of apple. Also spelled nonsuch.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. 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.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal

Etymologies

  1. First attested in 1590: none + such. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “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

  • “A 'nonesuch' is something unrivalled, a paragon, or something like nothing else.”

    Jane Austen's World

  • “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.”

    The Wall Street Journal: What's on Around Europe

  • “Once you installed it, you started making your. php pages and everything just worked. mod_perl on the other hand, gave you nonesuch.”

    Lessons to be learned from PHP : #comments

  • “August 25, 2009 nonesuch mcSpluttershirts and the colonorectal imaging cameras”

    nonesuch mcSpluttershirts and the colonorectal imaging cameras

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “What I'm going to try, though, is bring a grocery bag, since I also didn't manage to squeeze the veggie sausages and nonesuch (still in the freezer until the very last minute, given the heat) into the suitcase.”

    Breakfast in Bed

  • “Actually, I think that once again I will have too much space, since I need to leave room for all the publisher's catalogues and nonesuch that I will be schlepping home with me.”

    Breakfast in Bed

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