excellency

Meaning of excellency

noun
  1. a title or form of address given to certain high officials of state, especially ambassadors, or of the Roman Catholic Church.
    His Excellency the Indian Consul General
  2. an outstanding feature or quality.
    the characteristic excellencies of Wordsworth's poetry are listed

Middle English (in the sense ‘excellence’): from Latin excellentia, from excellere ‘surpass’ (see excel). Sense 1 dates from the mid 16th century.

Information about excellency

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of excellency is: excellencies.
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Hyphenation of excellency

ex-cel-lency

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • excellency is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

excellency synonyms

Meaning Excellency:

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Meaning excellence:

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