excellence
NounUS[ek-suh-luhns]/ˈɛksələns/3 syllables
Synonyms:
excellency
Open English WordNet
Noun (2)
- the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degreeType of qualityKinds admirability, impressiveness, first-rateness, incomparability, refinement, matchlessness
- an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels“a center of manufacturing excellence”“the use of herbs is one of the excellencies of French cuisine”Synonyms: excellencyType of feature, characteristic
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Translations
Noun the quality of being excellent
- Spanish
- excelencia
- French
- excellence
- Italian
- eccellenza
- Portuguese
- excelência
- Turkish
- mükemmellik
- Russian
- превосхо́дство prevosxódstvo
- Japanese
- 優秀 yūshū
- Dutch
- voortreffelijkheid
- Polish
- świetność
- Portuguese (PT)
- excelência
4 more languages
- Catalan
- excel·lència
- Czech
- výtečnost
- Finnish
- erinomaisuus
- Latvian
- izcilība
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ex′cel·lence noun
Origin: F. excellence, L. excellentia.
1. The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
Consider first that great Or bright infers not excellence.— John Milton
2. An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.
With every excellence refined.— James Beattie
3. A title of honor or respect; — more common in the form excellency.
I do greet your excellence With letters of commission from the king.— William Shakespeare
Synonyms: Superiority; preëminence; perfection; worth; goodness; purity; greatness.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54