Definition of Excellent

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Excellent

Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action.

Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad significance.

Excellently; eminently; exceedingly.

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Excellent Quotations

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C. S. Lewis

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
Brian Tracy

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
Voltaire

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
Alexander the Great

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.
Alexander the Great

Excellent Translations

excellent in Italian is esimio, grandioso, eccellentissimo
excellent in Latin is precipuus, palmarium, praestans prestans, eximius
excellent in Norwegian is fortreffelig, utmerket
excellent in Spanish is preeminente, insigne, sublime

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