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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NONESUCH, n.
1. An extraordinary thing; a thing that has not its equal.
2. A plant of the genus Lychnis.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal [syn: ideal, paragon, nonpareil, saint, apotheosis, nonesuch, nonsuch]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1590 a person or thing without an equal • nonesuch adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

var. of NONSUCH.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nonesuch None"such`, 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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Nonpareil, paragon, pattern, model, acme of perfection, pink of perfection, beas ideal.

Moby Thesaurus

abnormality, amazement, anomaly, astonishing thing, astonishment, champion, choice, chosen, conversation piece, cream, curio, curiosity, elect, elite, exception, fat, flower, gazingstock, ideal, improbability, jewel, marvel, marvelment, miracle, museum piece, nonpareil, oddity, optimum, paragon, phenomenon, phoenix, pick, prime, prize, prodigiosity, prodigy, queen, quintessence, quite a thing, rarity, select, sensation, sight, something else, spectacle, strange thing, stunner, superlative, the best, the best ever, the tops, the very best, wonder, wonderful thing, wonderment