"excellence" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɛksələns/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-excellence.wav Forms: excellences [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English excellence, from Old French excellence, from Latin excellentia. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|excellence}} Middle English excellence, {{der|en|fro|excellence}} Old French excellence, {{uder|en|la|excellentia}} Latin excellentia Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} excellence (usually uncountable, plural excellences)
  1. The quality of being excellent; brilliance Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (the quality of being excellent): uitmuntendheid (Afrikaans), voortreflikheid (Afrikaans), ὑπεροχή (huperokhḗ) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), գերազանցություն (gerazancʻutʻyun) (Armenian), bansay (Bikol Central), превъзхо́дство (prevǎzhódstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), excel·lència [feminine] (Catalan), 卓越 (zhuóyuè) (Chinese Mandarin), achukma (Choctaw), výtečnost [feminine] (Czech), uitmuntendheid [feminine] (Dutch), voortreffelijkheid [feminine] (Dutch), excellentie [feminine] (Dutch), brileco (Esperanto), bonegeco (Esperanto), excellence [feminine] (French), excelencia [feminine] (Galician), prominencia [feminine] (Galician), Vortrefflichkeit [feminine] (German), υπεροχή (yperochí) [feminine] (Greek), कमाल (kamāl) [masculine] (Hindi), feabhas [masculine] (Irish), eccellenza [feminine] (Italian), 優秀さ (yūshū-sa) (alt: ゆうしゅうさ) (Japanese), excellentia [feminine] (Latin), izcilība [feminine] (Latvian), изво́нредност (izvónrednost) [feminine] (Macedonian), превосхо́дство (prevoshódstvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), മികവ് (mikavŭ) (Malayalam), മേന്മ (mēnma) (Malayalam), panekiretanga (Maori), hiranga (Maori), huhuatanga (Maori), excelléncia [feminine] (Occitan), świetność [feminine] (Polish), excelência [feminine] (Portuguese), превосхо́дство (prevosxódstvo) [neuter] (Russian), excelencia [feminine] (Spanish), prestancia (Spanish), சிறப்பு (ciṟappu) (Tamil), மேன்மை (mēṉmai) (Tamil), śpālmäññe (Tocharian B)
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  2. Something in which one excels. Tags: uncountable, usually
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  3. An excellent or valuable quality; something at which any someone excels; a virtue. Tags: uncountable, usually
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: superiority, pre-eminence, perfection, worth, goodness, purity, greatness Derived forms: center of excellence, plural of excellence, superexcellence Related terms: par excellence

Inflected forms

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          "word": "മികവ്"
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          "sense": "the quality of being excellent",
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          "sense": "the quality of being excellent",
          "word": "hiranga"
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          "sense": "the quality of being excellent",
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          "sense": "the quality of being excellent",
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          "word": "świetność"
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          "sense": "the quality of being excellent",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.