excellence

See also: Excellence

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French excellence, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin excellentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛksələns/

Noun

excellence (usually uncountable, plural excellences)

1. The quality of being excellent; brilliance
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

Translations

the quality of being excellent

• Armenian: գերազանցություն (hy) (gerazancʻutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: превъзхо́дство (bg) n (prevǎzhódstvo)
• Catalan: excel·lència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卓越 (zh) (zhuóyuè)

• Czech: výtečnost f
• Esperanto: brileco, bonegeco
• French: excellence (fr) f
• Galician: excelencia f, prominencia f
• German: Vortrefflichkeit (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: υπεροχή (el) f (yperochí)

  Ancient: ὑπεροχή f (huperokhḗ)

• Irish: feabhas (ga) m
• Japanese: 優秀さ (ja) (ゆうしゅうさ, yūshū-sa)
• Latin: excellentia f
• Macedonian: изво́нредност f (izvónrednost), превосхо́дство n (prevoshódstvo)
• Maori: panekiretanga, hiranga, huhuatanga
• Polish: świetność (pl) f
• Portuguese: excelência (pt) f
• Russian: превосхо́дство (ru) n (prevosxódstvo)
• Spanish: excelencia (es) f, prestancia (es)

See also

• par excellence

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃s/, /ɛk.se.lɑ̃s/

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Noun

excellence f (plural excellences)

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

Further reading

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