excellently

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ex·cel·lent

(ĕk′sə-lənt)

adj.

1. Of the highest or finest quality; exceptionally good for its kind: enjoyed an excellent meal at the restaurant.

2. Archaic Being so to an extreme degree.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin excellēns, excellent-, present participle of excellere, to excel; see excel.]

ex′cel·lent·ly adv.

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Adv.

excellently - extremely well; "he did splendidly in the exam"; "we got along famously"

magnificently, splendidly, famously

Translations

بصورةٍ مُمْتازَه

fremragendestrålende

ausgezeichnet

excellemment parfaitement

frábærlega

üstün/mükemmel bir şekilde

极好地

excellently

[ˈeksələntlɪ] ADV → excelentemente, muy bien
to do sth excellently → hacer algo muy bien

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

excellently

[ˈɛksələntli] adv → parfaitement

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

excellently

adv → ausgezeichnet, hervorragend

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

excellently

[ˈɛksələntlɪ] adv → eccellentemente, ottimamente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

excel

(ikˈsel) – past tense, past participle exˈcelled – verb

1. to stand out beyond others (in some quality etc); to do very well (in or at some activity). He excelled in mathematics / at football.

2. to be better than. She excels them all at swimming.

ˈexcellence (ˈek-) noun

unusual goodness or worth. this man's excellence as a teacher.

ˈExcellency (ˈek-) – plural ˈExcellencies – noun

(with His, ~Your etc) a title of honour, used eg for ambassadors. His/Your Excellency; Their Excellencies.

ˈexcellent (ˈek-) adjective

unusually good. an excellent plan.

ˈexcellently adverb

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The poet, that beautified the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well: It is a pleasure, to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure, to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth

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Next to the commonalty of husbandmen is one of shepherds and herdsmen; for they have many things in common with them, and, by their way of life, are excellently qualified to make good soldiers, stout in body, and able to continue in the open air all night.

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I had heard of jerking beef on the plains, and our seal-meat, cut in thin strips and hung in the smoke, cured excellently.

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The soldiers wore rock-colored uniforms and were excellently drilled.

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"Going on excellently. Doctors very sanguine." The third was the most explicit of all.

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Among the Riverboro girls of her own age was a certain excellently named Minnie Smellie, who was anything but a general favorite.

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That was Adam's wise resolution, and it throve excellently for the first two or three weeks on the nourishment it got from the remembrance of Dinah's confession that Sunday afternoon.

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The varieties in the fitting-up of the rooms, where the common necessaries provided by the owner, in the common indifferent plight, were contrasted with some few articles of a rare species of wood, excellently worked up, and with something curious and valuable from all the distant countries Captain Harville had visited, were more than amusing to Anne; connected as it all was with his profession, the fruit of its labours, the effect of its influence on his habits, the picture of repose and domestic happiness it presented, made it to her a something more, or less, than gratification.

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Hesho seems excellently disposed towards us, and, after all, I should have thought his word would have had more weight in Tokio than the word of a young man who is new to diplomacy, and whose claims to distinction seem to rest rather upon his soldiering and the fact that he is a cousin of the Emperor."

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Then, wishing to secure a brilliant position in high society, he learnt to dance excellently and very soon was invited to all the balls in the best circles, and to some of their evening gatherings.

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Coffee, without cream or milk, he had twice a day, in the evening substituting tea; but both coffee and tea were excellently cooked.

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She was, moreover, excellently well skilled in the doctrine of amour, and knew better than anybody who and who were together; a knowledge which she the more easily attained, as her pursuit of it was never diverted by any affairs of her own; for either she had no inclinations, or they had never been solicited; which last is indeed very probable; for her masculine person, which was near six foot high, added to her manner and learning, possibly prevented the other sex from regarding her, notwithstanding her petticoats, in the light of a woman.