FromMiddle Englishexcellence, fromOld Frenchexcellence, fromLatinexcellentia.
excellence (usuallyuncountable,pluralexcellences)
- The quality of beingexcellent;brilliance
John Davies was awarded forexcellence in the field of computer security.
- Something in which one excels.
- Anexcellent orvaluablequality; something at which any someone excels; avirtue.
the quality of being excellent
- Afrikaans:uitmuntendheid,voortreflikheid
- Armenian:գերազանցություն (hy)(gerazancʻutʻyun)
- Bikol Central:bansay (bcl)
- Bulgarian:превъзхо́дство (bg) n(prevǎzhódstvo)
- Catalan:excel·lència (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:卓越 (zh)(zhuóyuè)
- Choctaw:achukma
- Czech:výtečnost f
- Dutch:uitmuntendheid (nl) f,voortreffelijkheid (nl) f,excellentie (nl) f
- Esperanto:brileco,bonegeco
- French:excellence (fr) f
- Galician:excelencia f,prominencia (gl) f
- German:Vortrefflichkeit (de) f
- Greek:υπεροχή (el) f(yperochí)
- Ancient:ὑπεροχή f(huperokhḗ)
- Hindi:कमाल (hi) m(kamāl)
- Irish:feabhas (ga) m
- Italian:eccellenza (it) f
- Japanese:優秀さ (ja)(ゆうしゅうさ, yūshū-sa)
- Latin:excellentia f
- Latvian:izcilība f
- Macedonian:изво́нредност f(izvónrednost),превосхо́дство n(prevoshódstvo)
- Malayalam:മികവ് (ml)(mikavŭ),മേന്മ (ml)(mēnma)
- Maori:panekiretanga,hiranga,huhuatanga
- Occitan:excelléncia (oc) f
- Polish:świetność (pl) f
- Portuguese:excelência (pt) f
- Russian:превосхо́дство (ru) n(prevosxódstvo)
- Spanish:excelencia (es) f,prestancia (es)
- Tamil:சிறப்பு (ta)(ciṟappu),மேன்மை (ta)(mēṉmai)
- Tocharian B:śpālmäññe
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- “excellence”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
- excellence inKeywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “excellence”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- IPA(key): /ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃s/ ~/ɛk.se.lɑ̃s/
excellence f (pluralexcellences)
- Excellence
- Excellency (term of address)
