Original vs Paragon - What's the difference?
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(label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
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, title= (label) First in a series or copies/versions.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 (label) Newly created.
(label) Fresh, different.
(label) Pioneering.
(label) Having as its origin.
An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived
A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent
(archaic) An eccentric
A person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model of some given (especially positive) quality.
* Shakespeare
* Emerson
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(obsolete) A companion; a match; an equal.
* Sir Philip Sidney
(obsolete) Comparison; competition.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ix:
(typography) A size of type between great primer and double pica.
A flawless diamond of at least 100 carats.
To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.
To compare with; to equal; to rival.
* Glover
To serve as a model for; to surpass.
* Shakespeare
To be equal; to hold comparison.
Original is a related term of paragon.
As nouns the difference between original and paragon
is that original is original while paragon is a person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model of some given (especially positive) quality.As a verb paragon is
to compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.original
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Adjective
(en adjective)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
Synonyms
* (first in series ) initial * autograph * prototypeAntonyms
* copy * derivative * reproduction * simileDerived terms
* originally * original sinNoun
(en noun)- This manuscript is the original
- You’re an original
Synonyms
* autograph * prototypeAntonyms
* copy * remake * reproductionStatistics
*External links
* * ----paragon
English
(wikipedia paragon)Noun
(en noun)- In the novel, Constanza is a paragon of virtue who would never compromise her reputation.
- Man, the paragon of animals!
- The riches of sweet Mary's son, / Boy-rabbi, Israel's paragon .
- Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister
- (Spenser)
- good by paragone / Of euill, may more notably be rad, / As white seemes fairer, macht with blacke attone [...].
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)- (Sir Philip Sidney)
- (Spenser)
- In arms anon to paragon the morn, / The morn new rising.
- He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description and wild fame.