Word Meanings - PARAGON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type. (more info) paragon, parangon; prob. fr. Gr. 1. A companion; a match; an equal. Spenser. Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister. Sir P. Sidney.

Additional info about word: PARAGON

A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type. (more info) paragon, parangon; prob. fr. Gr. 1. A companion; a match; an equal. Spenser. Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Emulation; rivalry; competition. Full many feats adventurous Performed, in paragon of proudest men. Spenser. 3. A model or pattern; a pattern of excellence or perfection; as, a paragon of beauty or eloquence. Udall. Man, . . . the paragon of animals ! Shak. The riches of sweet Mary's son, Boy-rabbi, Israel's paragon. Emerson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PARAGON)

• Treasure
• Jewel
• store
• valuable
• cash
• bullion
• accumulation
• abundance
• stock
• wealth
• riches
• hoard
• gem
• paragon
• model

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PARAGON)

• Scatter
• squander
• dissipate
• disregard
• disesteem
• prostitute
• waste
• betray

Related words: (words related to PARAGON)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• RICHESSE
  Wealth; riches. See the Note under Riches. Some man desireth for to have richesse. Chaucer. The richesse of all heavenly grace. Spenser.
• STOCKER
  One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• VALUABLENESS
  The quality of being valuable.
• STOCKWORK
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• JEWELRY
  1. The art or trade of a jeweler. Cotgrave. 2. Jewels, collectively; as, a bride's jewelry.
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• STOCK-BLIND
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• SQUANDER
  scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• TREASURERSHIP
  The office of treasurer.
• HOARDING
  A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic. 2. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. The whole arrangement
• ABUNDANCE
  An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been
• RICHES
  1. That which makes one rich; an abundance of land, goods, money, or other property; wealth; opulence; affluence. Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion, than our neighbors. Locke. 2. That
• STORED
  Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity. It is charged with stored virtue. Bagehot.
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• BEJEWEL
  To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle. "Bejeweled hands." Thackeray.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• UPHOARD
  To hoard up. Shak.
• BEETLESTOCK
  The handle of a beetle.
• BLUESTOCKINGISM
  The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.