Acme
Acme noun - The most perfect type or example.
Usage example: a movie that has come to be regarded as the acme of the Hollywood musical
Exemplar
Exemplar noun - Someone of such unequaled perfection as to deserve imitation.
Usage example: few of history's heroes were quite the exemplars that generations of schoolteachers made them out to be
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Nearby Word: exemplary
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