excellent

English

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Etymology

From Latin excellēns (“elevated, exalted”), present participle of excellō (“elevate, exult”)

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈɛksələnt/, /ˈɛksɪlnt/

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Adjective

excellent (comparative more excellent, superlative most excellent)

1. Of the highest quality; splendid.
2. Exceptionally good of its kind.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:excellent

Derived terms

• excellence
• excellently
• excellentness

Translations

of the highest quality

• Albanian: birinxhi (sq)
• Arabic: ممتاز (ar) (mumtaaz), فاخر (ar) (faakhir)
• Basque: bikain (eu)
• Bengali: উৎকৃষ্ট (bn) (utkrishţô), (colloquial) ফাটাফাটি (bn) (faţafaţi)
• Bulgarian: отличен (bg) (otličen), превъзходен (bg) (prevǎzhoden)
• Catalan: excel·lent (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (informal) 棒 (cmn) (bàng), (informal) 出色 (cmn) (chūsè), (informal) 極好 (cmn), 极好 (cmn) (jíhǎo), (formal) 優秀 (cmn), 优秀 (cmn) (yōuxiù), (formal) 卓越 (cmn) (zhuóyuè), (formal) 優異 (cmn), 优异 (cmn) (yōuyì), (formal) 高超 (cmn) (gāochāo)

• Czech: výtečný (cs) m, vynikající (cs)
• Dutch: uitstekend, uitmuntend, excellent, voortreffelijk
• Finnish: erinomainen (fi), loistava (fi)
• French: excellent (fr)
• Friulian: ecelent
• Georgian: ჩინებული (ka) (č'inebuli), საუცხოო (ka) (sauc'xoo)
• German: ausgezeichnet (de)
• Greek: έξοχος (eksokhos) m, υπέροχος (iperokhos) m, άριστος (aristos) m, θαυμάσιος (thavmasios) m

• Hebrew: מצוין (he) (metsuyan)
• Hungarian: kitűnő (hu), kiváló (hu)
• Ido: ecelanta (io)
• Italian: eccellente (it) m
• Japanese: 優れた (ja) (sugureta), 偉い (ja) (erai), 優良 (ja) (yūryō)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: نایاب

• Maltese: eċċellenti
• Norwegian: utmerket (no), storartet (no)
• Pashto: غوره (ps) (ğwara)
• Polish: świetny (pl) m
• Portuguese: excelente (pt)
• Russian: отличный (ru) (otlíčnyj), превосходный (ru) (prevosxódnyj), великолепный (ru) (velikolépnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: math dha-rìribh (gd), air leth (gd)
• Slovene: odličen
• Spanish: excelente (es)
• Swedish: utmärkt (sv)
• Turkish: mükemmel
• Vietnamese: xuất sắc (vi)
• Volapük: legudik (vo)

Adverb

excellent (comparative more excellent, superlative most excellent)

1. (obsolete) Excellently.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review Books 2001, p. 287:

     Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis, hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia [...].

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: doctor · Michael · fee · #997: excellent · Peter · instant · promised

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Dutch

Adjective

excellent (comparative excellenter, superlative excellentst)

1. excellent, splendid

Declension

Declension of excellent

		positive	comparative	superlative
				attributive	predicative/adverbial
predicative/adverbial		excellent	excellenter
neuter singular	indefinite	excellent	excellenter
	definite	excellente	excellentere	excellentste	excellentst, excellentste
common singular		excellente	excellentere	excellentste	excellentste
plural		excellente	excellentere	excellentste	excellentste
partitive		excellents	excellenters

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French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

excellent m (feminine excellente, masculine plural excellents, feminine plural excellentes)

1. Excellent; splendid.

Verb

excellent

1. third-person plural present indicative of exceller
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of exceller

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Latin

Verb

excellent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of excellō