adjective
Other Word Forms
- excellently adverb
- superexcellent adjective
- superexcellently adverb
- unexcellent adjective
- unexcellently adverb
Etymology
Origin of excellent
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin excellent-, stem of excellēns, present participle of excellere excel
Example Sentences
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The most secular of Jews, Sondheim is now the subject of a biography in Yale University Press’ excellent Jewish Lives series.
From Los Angeles Times
In 1977, he published Fighter - a non-fictional account of the Battle of Britain, which Hitler's former armaments minister, Albert Speer, described as "excellent".
From BBC
Some of big tech’s sidelines and acquisitions have turned into excellent businesses, and those triumphs have burnished the faith we have in their “celebrity CEOs and celebrity founders.”
"In macroeconomic terms it's excellent. But we still have inflation, inequality, and meagre salaries," Daya says.
From BBC
“I agree. You have an excellent design sense, June.”
From Literature
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