excellence

noun

1. The quality of being excellent

   "an award for academic excellence"

2. An excellent or valuable quality virtue

   "… I am as admiring as almost everyone else of the film's many excellences …"

3. Excellency

   "Lord Regent, I do greet your Excellence …"

4. the quality of being excellent
5. an excellent or valuable quality : virtue
6. excellency

noun

1. Extreme excellence demonstrated by Black people despite racist systems, beliefs, etc. that make it harder for them to achieve success or to be recognized for their accomplishments

   "We celebrate Malcolm X when he's told by his teacher right in the face, you can't be a lawyer. And he's able to overcome that. We celebrate the Black excellence in the face of resistance and oppression."

2. A person who demonstrates Black excellence

   "… [author Charise] Marie … chose to attend after a few friends told her about the festival and that “she is Black excellence” …"

adjective

1. Being the best of a kind preeminent

   "a chef par excellence"

noun phrase

1. A place of high achievement (in some subject or area)

   "The university is becoming a center of excellence for genetic engineering."