excellent

excellent
adj.
VERBS
appear, be, look, prove, remain, seem, sound
consider sth

The school is considered excellent.

ADVERB
most, really, truly
absolutely, quite
rather
generally

The meals are generally excellent.

consistently, uniformly

The performances and recordings are uniformly excellent.

apparently
potentially
otherwise

In an otherwise excellent issue, I found Creed's article very unconvincing.

PREPOSITION
at

Clancey was excellent at keeping the kids under control.

for

These potatoes are excellent for baking.

Excellent is used with these nouns: ↑accommodation, ↑acting, ↑advice, ↑amenity, ↑article, ↑balance, ↑bargain, ↑base, ↑book, ↑buffet, ↑camouflage, ↑candidate, ↑cast, ↑champagne, ↑chance, ↑character, ↑chef, ↑choice, ↑coffee, ↑collection, ↑command, ↑condition, ↑conductor, ↑cook, ↑coordination, ↑credentials, ↑crop, ↑cuisine, ↑dancer, ↑description, ↑design, ↑dinner, ↑display, ↑doctor, ↑education, ↑example, ↑excuse, ↑eyesight, ↑facility, ↑fit, ↑food, ↑foundation, ↑fun, ↑goal, ↑goalkeeper, ↑GP, ↑grade, ↑guide, ↑health, ↑hearing, ↑hotel, ↑idea, ↑illustration, ↑impression, ↑ingredient, ↑instinct, ↑introduction, ↑investment, ↑job, ↑lawyer, ↑library, ↑match, ↑meal, ↑memory, ↑model, ↑mother, ↑museum, ↑musician, ↑news, ↑opportunity, ↑package, ↑performance, ↑photograph, ↑piece, ↑play, ↑player, ↑point, ↑presentation, ↑progress, ↑prospect, ↑pub, ↑quality, ↑range, ↑rate, ↑record, ↑recording, ↑recovery, ↑reference, ↑report, ↑reproduction, ↑reputation, ↑resource, ↑restaurant, ↑result, ↑return, ↑review, ↑run, ↑save, ↑score, ↑selection, ↑service, ↑shape, ↑shop, ↑shot, ↑source, ↑speech, ↑start, ↑starting point, ↑subject, ↑suggestion, ↑summary, ↑taste, ↑teacher, ↑training, ↑try, ↑tutorial, ↑value, ↑vehicle, ↑visibility, ↑vision, ↑weather, ↑win, ↑wine, ↑work

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  • excellent — excellent, ente [ ɛkselɑ̃, ɑ̃t ] adj. • XIIe; lat. excellens, p. prés. de excellere → exceller ♦ Qui, dans son genre, atteint un degré éminent de perfection; très bon. ⇒ admirable, merveilleux, parfait, supérieur. A ♦ 1 ♦ (Choses) Un lit… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • excellent — excellent, ente (è ksè lan, lan t ) adj. 1°   Qui est à un degré éminent, qui l emporte. •   Il fut appelé à cette excellente fonction de ministre du Dieu vivant pour la défense de l Église et pour le salut des peuples, BOURDAL. Panég. de S.… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • excellent — Excellent, [excell]ente. adj. v. Qui excelle. Excellent vin. chere excellente. goust excellent. fruits, melons excellents. ces chevaux là sont excellents. Musique excellente. excellente piece de theatre. excellent Musicien. excellent Poëte.… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • excellent — Excellent, Exquisitus, Praestabilis, Singularis, Splendidus, Clarus, Praeclarus, Excellens. Excellent et comme separé du troupeau, Egregius, Eximius. Excellent en perfection, Absolutus. Excellent en sagesse, Antecellens sapientia. Le plus… …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • Excellent — Ex cel*lent, a. [F. excellent, L. excellens, entis, p. pr. of excellere. See {Excel}.] 1. 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 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Excellent — may refer to:*Excellence *Excellent ring, in mathematics *Excellent scheme, in mathematicsee also*Excellence (disambiguation) …   Wikipedia

  • excellent — mid 14c., from O.Fr. excellent outstanding, excellent, from L. excellentem (nom. excellens), prp. of excellere (see EXCEL (Cf. excel)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • excellent — can be qualified by quite or most, which are adverbs with absolute meaning, but not by very or more, which are grading adverbs: • The quite excellent British Museum Press, which is managing to produce some twenty scholarly titles this season Art… …   Modern English usage

  • Excellent — Ex cel*lent, adv. Excellently; eminently; exceedingly. [Obs.] This comes off well and excellent. Shak. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Excellent — (v. lat.), vortrefflich, herrlich …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Excellent — Excellent, lat. deutsch, vortrefflich; herrlich; excelliren, sich auszeichnen …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

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