Excelsior

Quick meaning: Excelsior is an adjective meaning (fandom slang, especially comics) A greeting, farewell or acclamation.

Meaning

(fandom slang, especially comics) A greeting, farewell or acclamation.

More Meanings

1. (US printing, dated) The size of type between Norse and brilliant, standardized as 3-point.
2. (Canada, US) Stuffing material (as for furniture and mattresses) made of slender, curled woodshavings, as a substitute for hair.
3. (archaic or poetic, rare) Loftier, yet higher, more elevated; ever upward.
4. (archaic or poetic, rare) More surpassing, more excelling.
5. (dated) Onward; a rallying cry for progress.

Example Sentences

It was clear from the first three paragraphs that the language employed by Mr Tolkien was excelsior. He was brilliant.

All we know for certain is that our tree, now approaching a hundred years old, was excelsior – loftier than any other ash in the vicinity.

... and when the shout 'Excelsior!' echoed, up the oaken heights, Two hundred heels went thundering all at once, Four stairs at every jump

Without comparisons, the beautiful is neither felt nor understood, so that it is the excelsior of the normal type, it is the true + x; it is the splendour of the true.

Synonyms for excelsior

Depending on context, synonyms include minikin.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include eminent, high, eximious, supernal, exalted, superexalted.

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