excellence

See also Excellence

English

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Etymology

Latin excellentia

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛksələns/

Noun

excellence (usually uncountable; plural excellences)

1. The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
2. Something in which one excels.
3. An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.

Synonyms

• superiority
• pre-eminence
• perfection
• worth
• goodness
• purity
• greatness

Translations

the quality of being excellent

• Bulgarian: превъзходство (bg) (prevǎzhódstvo) n 
• Catalan: excel·lència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卓越 (cmn) (zhuóyuè)

• Czech: výtečnost (cs) f
• Esperanto: moŝto (eo)
• French: excellence (fr) f

• German: Vortrefflichkeit (de) f
• Japanese: 優秀さ (ja) (ゆうしゅうさ, yūshū-sa)
• Macedonian: извонредност (mk) (izvónrednost) f, превосходство (mk) (prevoshódstvo) n
• Polish: świetność (pl) f
• Portuguese: excelência (pt) f
• Russian: превосходство (ru) (prevosxódstvo) n 
• Spanish: excelencia (es) f

See also

• par excellence

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Pronunciation

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Noun

excellence f (plural excellences)

1. Excellence.
2. Excellency (term of address).