Usually means: Superior quality, surpassing ordinary standards.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word excellence:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. excellence: Merriam-Webster
  2. excellence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. excellence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. excellence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. excellence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Excellence, excellence: Wordnik
  7. excellence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Excellence, excellence: Wiktionary
  9. excellence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. excellence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. excellence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Excellence, excellence: Dictionary.com
  13. excellence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Excellence (disambiguation), Excellence (magazine), Excellence (pop group), Excellence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Excellence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. excellence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. excellence: Rhymezone
  18. excellence, excellence (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. excellence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. excellence: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. excellence: FreeDictionary.org
  22. excellence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. excellence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. excellence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excellence: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excellence: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. excellence: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excellence: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See excellences as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The quality of being excellent; brilliance
noun:  Something in which one excels.
noun:  An excellent or valuable quality; something at which any someone excels; a virtue.
noun:  A title of honor or respect; more common in the form Excellency.

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