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adjective

Excellent adj.

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."

Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; used with words of a bad significance. (Obs. or Ironical) "An excellent hypocrite." "Their sorrows are most excellent."

Synonyms: Worthy; choice; prime; valuable; select; exquisite; transcendent; admirable; worthy.

adverb

Excellent adv. Excellently; eminently; exceedingly. (Obs.) "This comes off well and excellent."

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Etymology of 'Excellent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Excellent" Quotes from Famous Books

... it was thought would be a tower of strength—took an active part in its editorial work. It had an excellent staff, and, in a journalistic sense and as a newspaper production, it was a credit to itself ...

— A Tale of One City: The New Birmingham - Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" • Thomas Anderton

... lead him to give her article the opportunity which she was sure it deserved. She hoped that the editor would pay her as well as possible for it, as she needed the money greatly. She added that her brother was a reporter on the Little Rock Sentinel and he had declared that her literary style was excellent. Baker really did not read this note. His vast experience of a fortnight had enabled him to detect its kind in two glances. He unfolded the manuscript, looked at it woodenly and then tossed it with the letter to the ...

— Active Service • Stephen Crane

... deemed necessary. Another writer, an Englishman, speaking of the high rate of infant mortality, says, "It arises from ignorance of the proper means to be employed in rearing children," which certainly is plain language. Such facts and opinions as these would make an excellent basis for a course of lectures at the "Institute," to be given by competent women physicians. The advertisements of "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" would be remarkably suggestive in this connection. A mother of three little children said to me, "I give the baby her dose right after ...

— A Domestic Problem • Abby Morton Diaz

... Boylan and assurances of excellent regard. I have found the favor he asks, however, altogether out of my power ...

— Red Fleece • Will Levington Comfort

... reminding him of you. But we must we patient. Adieu, my dear friend; we must set off speedily, and Heaven knows when we shall be back again!" I wished him a successful campaign and a speedy return. Alas! I was doomed to see my excellent ...

— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

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