excellency : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: excellency	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for excellency
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Excellency n a title used to address dignitaries (such as ambassadors or governors); usually preceded by `Your' or `His' or `Her'; "Your Excellency" an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels; "a center of manufacturing excellence"; "the use of herbs is one of the excellencies of French cuisine" Synonym(s): excellence, excellency
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Excellency \Ex"cellency\, n.; pl. {Excellencies}. 1. Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority. His excellency is over Israel. --Ps. lxviii. 34. Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency. --Hooker. 2. A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes.