excellent
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English excellent, from Old French excellent, from Latin excellēns (“elevated, exalted”), present participle of excellō (“elevate, exult”), equivalent to excel + -ent.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛksələnt/, /ˈɛksɪlənt/
- (in rapid speech) IPA(key): /ˈɛkslənt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɛksələnt/
Audio (US): (file)
Adjective
editexcellent (comparative more excellent, superlative most excellent)
- Having excelled, having surpassed.
- Of higher or the highest quality; splendid.
- 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
- A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
- Exceptionally good of its kind.
- 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
- Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.
- Bill and Ted had an excellent adventure last week in preparation of their history exam.
- Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.
- 1754–1762, David Hume, “(please specify the page)”, in [The History of England ], volume (please specify |volume=1 to 6), London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […]:
- Elizabeth, therefore, who was an excellent hypocrite
- 1616–1618, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, “The Queene of Corinth”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii:
- Their sorrows are most excellent.
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Adverb
editexcellent (comparative more excellent, superlative most excellent)
- (obsolete) Excellently.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, 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 […].
Further reading
edit- “excellent”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- excellent in Britannica Dictionary
- excellent in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
- excellent in Ozdic collocation dictionary
- excellent in WordReference English Collocations
Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Dutch excellent, from Middle French excellent, from Old French excellent, from Latin excellēns.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editexcellent (comparative excellenter, superlative excellentst)
- (formal) excellent, splendid
- Synonyms: uitmuntend, uitstekend
Declension
editDeclension of excellent | ||||
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uninflected | excellent | |||
inflected | excellente | |||
comparative | excellenter | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | excellent | excellenter | het excellentst het excellentste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | excellente | excellentere | excellentste |
n. sing. | excellent | excellenter | excellentste | |
plural | excellente | excellentere | excellentste | |
definite | excellente | excellentere | excellentste | |
partitive | excellents | excellenters | — |
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editDescendants
editFrench
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Latin excellentem.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editexcellent (feminine excellente, masculine plural excellents, feminine plural excellentes)
Usage notes
editThis adjective is generally placed before the noun it modifies.
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editexcellent
Further reading
edit- “excellent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
editVerb
editexcellent
Middle French
editNoun
editexcellent m (feminine singular excellente, masculine plural excellens, feminine plural excellentes)
Occitan
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editPronunciation
editAdjective
editexcellent m (feminine singular excellenta, masculine plural excellents, feminine plural excellentas)
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edit- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kelH-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms suffixed with -ent
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- Rhymes:Dutch/ɛnt
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɛnt/3 syllables
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