excellencies
Meaning of excellencies
- 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
- 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 excellencies
- It is a name.
- The singular form of excellencies is: excellency.
- Languages in which excellencies is used:
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Hyphenation of excellencies
ex-cel-len-cies
- It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
- excellencies is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
Words that rhyme with excellencies
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