excellent adj : of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind" [syn: first-class, fantabulous]

English

Etymology

From French excellent

Pronunciation

• (RP) /'ɛksələnt/

Adjective

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

Derived terms

• excellence
• excellently

Translations

• Chinese: 优秀 (yōuxiù)
• Czech: výtečný , vynikající
• Dutch: uitstekend, uitmuntend, excellent, voortreffelijk
• Finnish: erinomainen, loistava
• Friulan: ecelent
• German: ausgezeichnet
• Italian: eccellente
• Greek: έξοχος (eksokhos) , υπέροχος (iperokhos) , άριστος (aristos) , θαυμάσιος (thavmasios)
• Kurdish:
• Portuguese: excelente
• Slovene: odličen , odlična , odlično
• Spanish: excelente
• Swedish: utmärkt
• Turkish: mukemmel

Dutch

Adjective

excellent

1. Excellent; splendid.

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

excellent

1. Excellent; splendid.

Excellent may refer to:

• Excellence
• Excellent ring, in mathematics
• Excellent scheme, in mathematics

See also

• Excellence (disambiguation)

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