Excellence :: Excellence (n.) The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
Excellence :: Excellence (n.) An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.
Excellence :: Excellence (n.) A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form excellency.
Excellency :: Excellency (n.) 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..
Excellent :: Excellent (a.) Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action..
Excellent :: Excellent (a.) Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad significance..
Excellently :: Excellently (adv.) In an excellent manner; well in a high degree.
Excellently :: Excellently (adv.) In a high or superior degree; -- in this literal use, not implying worthiness..
Hellene :: Hellene (n.) A native of either ancient or modern Greece; a Greek.
Hellenian :: Hellenian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or Greeks..
Hellenic :: Hellenic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece; Greek; Grecian..
Hellenic :: Hellenic (n.) The dialect, formed with slight variations from the Attic, which prevailed among Greek writers after the time of Alexander..
Hellenism :: Hellenism (n.) A phrase or form of speech in accordance with genius and construction or idioms of the Greek language; a Grecism.
Hellenism :: Hellenism (n.) The type of character of the ancient Greeks, who aimed at culture, grace, and amenity, as the chief elements in human well-being and perfection..
Hellenist :: Hellenist (n.) One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1)..
Hellenist :: Hellenist (n.) One skilled in the Greek language and literature; as, the critical Hellenist..