a person who is perfect or who is a perfect example of a particular good quality 完人;典范 I make no claim to be a paragon. 我没有说过自己是完人。 He wasn't the paragon of virtue she had expected. 他不是她想象中的那种美德典范。
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from obsolete French, from Italian paragone ‘touchstone to try good (gold) from bad’, from medieval Greek parakonē ‘whetstone’.