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From Middle English excellent, from Old French excellent, from Latin excellēns (“elevated, exalted”), present participle of excellō (“elevate, exult”), equivalent to excel +‎ -ent.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛksələnt/, /ˈɛksɪlənt/
• (in rapid speech) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkslənt/
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excellent (comparative more excellent, superlative most excellent)

1. Having excelled, having surpassed.
2. 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., , , →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.

3. 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.

4. Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.
   • 1754–1762, David Hume, The History of England

     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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excellent (comparative more excellent, superlative most excellent)

1. (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 .

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From Middle Dutch excellent, from Middle French excellent, from Old French excellent, from Latin excellēns.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛk.səˈlɛnt/

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• Hyphenation: ex‧cel‧lent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

excellent (comparative excellenter, superlative excellentst)

1. (formal) excellent, splendid

   Synonyms: uitmuntend, uitstekend

• excellentie

• Negerhollands: excellent
• → Papiamentu: excelent (dated)

Borrowed from Latin excellentem.

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃/ ~ /ɛk.se.lɑ̃/

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

1. excellent; splendid

This adjective is generally placed before the noun it modifies.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.sɛl/

excellent

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

• “excellent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

excellent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of excellō

excellent m (feminine singular excellente, masculine plural excellens, feminine plural excellentes)

1. excellent
   • 1549, Commentaires tres excellens de l'hystoire des plantes‎, Paris:

From Latin excellēns.

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excellent m (feminine singular excellenta, masculine plural excellents, feminine plural excellentas)

1. excellent

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