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Vanguard vs Paragon - What's the difference?

vanguard | paragon |

As nouns the difference between vanguard and paragon

is that vanguard is the leading units at the front of an army or fleet 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.

vanguard

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.
  • (by extension) The person(s) at the forefront of any group or movement.
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    • Synonyms

    * advance guard

    Antonyms

    * rearguard

    Related terms

    * avantgarde

    paragon

    English

    (wikipedia paragon)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model of some given (especially positive) quality.
    • In the novel, Constanza is a paragon of virtue who would never compromise her reputation.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Man, the paragon of animals!
  • * Emerson
    • The riches of sweet Mary's son, / Boy-rabbi, Israel's paragon .
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  • (obsolete) A companion; a match; an equal.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister
    (Spenser)
  • (obsolete) Comparison; competition.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ix:
    • good by paragone / Of euill, may more notably be rad, / As white seemes fairer, macht with blacke attone [...].
  • (typography) A size of type between great primer and double pica.
  • A flawless diamond of at least 100 carats.

    • Synonyms

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.
    • (Sir Philip Sidney)
  • To compare with; to equal; to rival.
    • (Spenser)
  • * Glover
    • In arms anon to paragon the morn, / The morn new rising.
  • To serve as a model for; to surpass.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description and wild fame.
  • To be equal; to hold comparison.

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