excellencenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈek.səl.əns/us/ˈek.səl.əns/the quality of being excellent:
The school is noted for its academic excellence.
More examples
- This college has a long tradition of athletic excellence.
- The excellence of the skiing compensates for the ugliness of the resort.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Extremely good
- admirable
- amazing
- ask for sb/sth
- award-winning
- awesome
- bowl
- brilliant
- incredible
- inspired
- irreplaceable
- life is just a bowl of cherries idiom
- magnificent
- outstanding
- parallel
- sick
- superlatively
- supremacy
- supreme
- terrific
- textbook
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