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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EX'CELLENT, a. Being of great virtue or worth; eminent or distinguished for what is amiable, valuable or laudable; as an excellent man or citizen; an excellent judge or magistrate.
1. Being of great value or use, applied to things; remarkable for good properties; as excellent timber; an excellent farm; an excellent horse; excellent fruit.
2. Distinguished for superior attainments; as an excellent artist.
3. Consummate; complete; in an ill sense.
Elizabeth was an excellent hypocrite.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin excellent-, excellens, from present participle of excellere Date: 14th century 1. archaic superior 2. very good of its kind ; eminently good ; first-class • excellently adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. extremely good; pre-eminent. Derivatives: excellently adv. Etymology: ME f. OF (as EXCEL)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Excellent Ex"cel*lent, a. [F. excellent, L. excellens, -entis, p. pr. of excellere. See Excel.] 1. 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. To love . . . What I see excellent in good or fair. --Milton. 2. Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad significance. [Obs. or Ironical] ``An excellent hypocrite.'' --Hume. Their sorrows are most excellent. --Beau. & Fl. Syn: Worthy; choice; prime; valuable; select; exquisite; transcendent; admirable; worthy.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Excellent Ex"cel*lent, adv. Excellently; eminently; exceedingly. [Obs.] ``This comes off well and excellent.'' --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Something that is excellent is very good indeed. The recording quality is excellent... Luckily, Sue is very efficient and does an excellent job as Fred's personal assistant. ADJ • excellently They're both playing excellently... ADV: ADV after v, ADV adj/-ed 2. Some people say 'Excellent!' to show that they approve of something. EXCLAM [feelings]

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ek'-se-lent 'addir, yattir (Aramaic); diaphoroteros, kratistos:

The translation of various Hebrew words, chiefly of 'addir, "great," "honorable" (Ps 8:1,9; 16:3; 76:4); yattir, "surpassing," is Aramaic, occurring in Da 2:31; 4:36; 5:12,14; 6:3. Other words are bachar, "to glow," "try," "choose" (So 5:15); ga'on, "mounting," "swelling" (Isa 4:2; see EXCELLENCY); gadhal, "to make or become great" (Isa 28:29), and other words occurring singly.

In the New Testament we have diaphoroteros, "greater," "better" (Heb 1:4; 8:6); kratistos, "most excellent," "most noble" (Lu 1:3; Ac 23:26); ta diapheronta, "things that differ," "are preeminent" (Ro 2:18; Php 1:10); megaloprepes, "becoming to the great" (2Pe 1:17, the King James Version "a voice to him from the excellent glory," the American Standard Revised Version and the English Revised Version, margin "the Majestic Glory"); kath' huperbolen "very surpassing" (1Co 12:31, "Yet I show unto you a more excellent way," the Revised Version (British and American) "most excellent"); pleion, "greater," "fuller" (Heb 11:4; see ABEL).

W. L. Walker

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Superior, eminent, first-rate, prime, admirable, choice, crack, of the best, of the first water, of the first grade, of the best quality, of the highest order, extremely good. 2. Virtuous, worthy, estimable, admirable, thoroughly good, highly deserving, worthy of great praise.

Moby Thesaurus

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