excelsior
Meaning of excelsior
noun
- used in the names of hotels and products to indicate superior quality.
they stayed at the Excelsior
- softwood shavings used for packing fragile goods or stuffing furniture.
late 18th century (as an exclamation): from Latin, comparative of excelsus, from ex- ‘out, beyond’ + celsus ‘lofty’.
Information about excelsior
- It is a name.
- The plural form of excelsior is: excelsiors.
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Hyphenation of excelsior
ex-cel-sior
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- excelsior is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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