What does excellent mean?

Definitions for excellent
ˈɛk sə ləntex·cel·lent

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. excellent, first-class, fantabulous, splendidadjective

    very good;of the highest quality

    "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind"

Wiktionary

  1. excellentadverb

    Excellently.

  2. excellentadjective

    Of the highest quality; splendid.

  3. excellentadjective

    Exceptionally good of its kind.

  4. Etymology: From Latin excellens, present participle of excello

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Excellentadjective

    Etymology: excellens, Latin.

    Arts and sciences are excellent, in order to certain ends. Tayl.

    He is excellent in power and in judgment. Job xxxvii. 23.

ChatGPT

  1. excellent

    Excellent is an adjective that refers to something or someone being extremely good, superior, or of high quality. It indicates the possession of outstanding or exceptional qualities, features, abilities, or performance. It can also describe an action or output that surpasses ordinary standards or expectations.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Excellentadjective

    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

  2. Excellentadjective

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

  3. Excellentadverb

    excellently; eminently; exceedingly

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. EXCELLENT

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Excellent is ranked #65593 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Excellent surname appeared 302 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Excellent.

    91.7% or 277 total occurrences were Black.
    4.3% or 13 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.9% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.6% or 5 total occurrences were White.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'excellent' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1617

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'excellent' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1300

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'excellent' in Adjectives Frequency: #186

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of excellent in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of excellent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of excellent in a Sentence

  1. John Miller:

    Zach has an outstanding track record and excellent pedigree. His broad expertise and comprehensive coverage background mean he will fit perfectly with our origination-led banking model.

  2. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

  3. Janet Erskine Stuart:

    There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

  4. Toronto Zoo:

    Er Shun is demonstrating excellent maternal instincts and began cleaning and cradling the first cub soon after its birth, while this is wonderful news, the tiny cubs are very vulnerable at this size, so the next several hours and days will be critical to their survival.

  5. Pamela Gonzalez:

    Losing Mrs. Byrd in our small rural community was devastating. She was an excellent educator with a huge heart, we find comfort in knowing her story may bring awareness to the importance of keeping our school employees safe and our precious students safe in this pandemic.

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