Excellency

See also: excellency

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛk.sə.lən.si/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

Excellency (plural Excellencies)

1. (used with His, Her or Your) A form of address for certain high officials or dignitaries.

Synonyms

• Excellence

Derived terms

• Excy
• His Excellency
• Her Excellency
• Your Excellency

Translations

Form of address for certain high officials or dignitaries

• Arabic: سَعَادَة f (saʕāda)
• Basque: Txit
• Catalan: excel·lència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 閣下 / 阁下 (zh) (géxià)

• Danish: excellence (da) c
• Dutch: excellentie (nl) f
• Finnish: ylhäisyys (fi) (+ possessive suffix), korkeus (fi) (+ possessive suffix)
• French: Excellence f
• German: Exzellenz (de) f
• Greek: Εξοχότατος m (Exochótatos), Εξοχοτάτη f (Exochotáti)
• Haitian Creole: Ekselans
• Hindi: महामान्य (hi) (mahāmānya)
• Icelandic: Hr
• Irish: Soilse f
• Italian: Eccellenza (it) f
• Japanese: 閣下 (ja) (かっか, kakka)
• Khmer: ឯកឧត្តម (km) (aek utdɑm), ឯកឧកញ៉ា (km) (aek oknyaa)
• Korean: 각하 (ko) (gakha)
• Macedonian: све́тлост f (svétlost), екселе́нција f (ekseléncija)
• Maltese: eċċellenza f
• Norwegian: eksellense
• Persian: عالی‌جناب ('âli-jenâb), اعلی‌حضرت (a'lâ-hazrat)
• Polish: ekscelencja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Excelência (pt) f
• Romanian: Excelență f
• Russian: превосходи́тельство (ru) n (prevosxodítelʹstvo), сия́тельство (ru) n (sijátelʹstvo)
• Slovene: ekscelenca (sl) f
• Spanish: excelencia (es) f
• Swahili: mheshimiwa (sw), mtukufu (sw)
• Swedish: excellens (sv) c
• Thai: ใต้เท้า (tai thao)
• Turkish: ekselans (tr), ekselansları, majesteleri
• Urdu: مہامانی (mahāmānya)