HOW TO PRONOUNCE
excellence
/ˈɛksələns/
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What does excellence mean?
noun
- The quality of being excellent; brilliance
- Something in which one excels.
- An excellent or valuable quality; something at which any someone excels; a virtue.
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proper noun
- A title of honor or respect; more common in the form Excellency.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɛksələns/
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“Miss Price has a brother at sea,” said Edmund, “whose excellence as a correspondent makes her think you too severe upon us.”
History and geography--including in the latter, for reasons about to be mentioned, nature study--are the information studies par excellence of the schools.
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Before going further, let us take notice that the seventeenth century is, par excellence, the century distinguished for narratives of imaginary travels.
Well, and can the eyes fulfil their end if they are wanting in their own proper excellence and have a defect instead?
Half-an-hour after sunrise Mr Gordon walks quietly into the vast building which contains the sheep and their shearers--called "the shed," par excellence.