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

• IPA(key): /ˈɛksələns/

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.

• superiority

• pre-eminence

• perfection

• worth

• goodness

• purity

• greatness

• center of excellence

• plural of excellence

• superexcellence

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

• par excellence

• “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.

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

• IPA(key): /ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃s/

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)

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