excellence

See also: Excellence

English

Etymology

From Old French excellence, from Latin excellentia.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɛksələns/

Noun

excellence (usually uncountable, plural excellences)

The quality of being excellent; brilliance
Something in which one excels.
An excellent or valuable quality; something at which any someone excels; a virtue.

Synonyms

Translations

the quality of being excellent

Armenian: գերազանցություն (hy) (gerazancʿutʿyun)
Bulgarian: превъзходство (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
German: Vortrefflichkeit (de) f
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: извонредност f (izvónrednost), превосходство 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

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃s/
Audio (file)

Noun

excellence f (plural excellences)

Excellence.
Excellency (term of address).

Further reading

“excellence” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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