excellence 
ex·cel·lence (ek′sə ləns)
noun
- the fact or condition of excelling; superiority; surpassing goodness, merit, etc.
- something in which a person or thing excels; particular virtue
- excellency
Etymology: ME < OFr < L excellentia < prp. of excellere
Converse of object
- reward: We actively promote good teaching practice and operate award schemes to reward excellence and innovation in teaching.
- recognize: Research in Earth Sciences The 5A rating maintained in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise recognized the excellence of our research.
- mow: Grounds Care Ransomes Jacobsen Ltd 170 years of lawn mowing excellence has given Ransomes and unrivaled reputation for quality groundscare.
- promote: The scheme is open to all staff who promote excellence in student learning in HE.
- achieve: Much of what we need to know about achieving excellence is to be found in the sector from the people working in it.
- celebrate: The awards aim to highlight best practice in the use of race equality initiatives, and to celebrate excellence.
Preposition: in
- teaching: Excellence in teaching is promoted through the annual Teaching Fellowship Scheme.
- journalism: She has successfully combined her excellence in journalism with the delicate art of keyword density as it relates to search engine optimization.
Adjective modifier
- par: I will also concede that the furniture tossing was par excellence.
- academic: It is an historic city, with a tradition of academic excellence.
- culinary: Sofitel London Gatwick offers the ultimate choice in culinary excellence.
- artistic: An example of an illustration by John Gould demonstrated the artistic excellence achieved.
- horticultural: The new world-class greenhouse will mark a new chapter in horticultural excellence with life-long learning at its heart.
- all-round: Argos was proclaimed simply the best in terms of performance and genuine all-round excellence.
Modifies a noun
- award: First amateur radio page to be awarded our excellence award!
Noun used with modifier
- par: This is a sacred site par excellence, reportedly awash with strong earth energies.
- sporting: But, let's not let sporting excellence obscure the many other strings to the Hampton bow.
- quarterback: Quarterback excellence that of narrow-field and would love to.
- engineering: For a company synonymous with engineering excellence, Honda recognizes the value of investment in the most up to date infrastructure available.
- teaching: The proposal for the recognition of existing teaching excellence is warmly applauded.
One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.
The definition of happiness of the Greeksis full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, the Presidency provides some happiness.
A balance, an ennobling interchange Of action from without and from within; The excellence, pure function, and best power Both of the object seen, and eye that sees.
El orbe hispano nunca se vino abajo, ni siquiera a la ca|¤da del imperio espan ol, sino que se ha multiplicado en numerosas facetas de ensanches todav|¤a insospechados No somos pueblos en estado de candor, que se deslumbren fa¤ cilmente con los instrumentos externos de que se acompan a la cultura, sino pueblos que heredan una vieja civilizacio¤ n y exigen la excelencia misma de la cultura. The Hispanic world never crumbled, not even after the Spanish Empire fell, but instead has multiplied itself in broad ways that are still largely unknown Our people are not naive and are not blinded by the external tools that go together with culture; we are rather the inheritors of an old civilization, and we demand the excellence proper to culture itself.
And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.
I myself have accomplished nothing of excellence except a remarkable and, to some of my friends, unaccountable expertness in hitting empty ginger ale bottles with small rocks at a distance of thirty paces.
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
This isthe land God gave to Andy Stewartöwe have our inheritance. There shall be no ardour, there shall be indifference. There shall not be excellence, there shall be the average. We shall be the intrepid hunters of golf balls.
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