EXTRAORDINAIRE

Etymology

Adjective

extraordinaire (not comparable)

(postpositive) Extraordinary, remarkable, outstanding.

(postpositive) (of a person) Particularly skilled; unusually active; particularly successful.

Usage notes

• When used after a plural noun, the adjective is occasionally pluralized as extraordinaires like in French, so that (for example) both dancers extraordinaire and dancers extraordinaires can be found.

Noun

extraordinaire (uncountable)

Something particularly remarkable or outstanding.

Source: Wiktionary



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According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.

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