excellence

See also: Excellence

English

Etymology

From Middle English excellence, from Old French excellence, from Latin excellentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛksələns/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

excellence (usually uncountable, plural excellences)

1. The quality of being excellent; brilliance

   John Davies was awarded for excellence in the field of computer security.

2. Something in which one excels.
3. An excellent or valuable quality; something at which any someone excels; a virtue.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• center of excellence
• plural of excellence
• superexcellence

Translations

the quality of being excellent

• Afrikaans: uitmuntendheid, voortreflikheid
• Armenian: գերազանցություն (hy) (gerazancʻutʻyun)
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: 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 Greek: 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)
• Māori: 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

See also

• par excellence

References

• “excellence”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• excellence in Keywords 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”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin excellentia. By surface analysis, exceller +‎ -ence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃s/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

excellence f (plural excellences)

1. excellence

   bourse d'excellence ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   par excellence ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. excellency (term of address)

   Son Excellence ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   Votre Excellence ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Related terms

• excellent

Further reading

• “excellence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012