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# excellence

«excellence» in Mova's school dictionary: **The quality of being extremely good; very high quality** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (excellence) — uncountable

### meaning for a pupil

1) The quality of being extremely good; very high quality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excellence/#m1)

2) Being the best at something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excellence/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Schools and sports use it in mottos and awards: «a culture of excellence», «award for excellence», «centre of excellence». It praises very high standards of work or behaviour.

### examples

- She won an award for excellence in maths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excellence/#x1)
- The school aims for excellence in everything. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excellence/#x2)
- The team showed excellence on the pitch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excellence/#x3)
- This restaurant is famous for the excellence of its food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excellence/#x4)
- Hard work leads to excellence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excellence/#x5)
- The certificate said «For excellence in reading». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excellence/#x6)
- More, there was no hunter of them all who even distantly approached him in excellence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excellence/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: no plural, no «an». Adjective: excellent; verb: excel. Spelling: two l's — excellence, ending -ence not -ance.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «excellence» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excellence/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.