excelsior

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Loftier, yet higher, more elevated; ever upward.

   “At this crisis, reverberating among the pines, rang out more distinctly the voice of the excelsior man , urging me to come on. "Oh! I'm all right down here," I answered, gasping for breath.”

2. sıfat More surpassing, more excelling.

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

3. ünlem Onward; a rallying cry for progress.

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

4. ünlem A greeting, farewell or acclamation.

   “MARTIN PRINCE: Finally, Bart's one of us! NERDS: Excelsior!”

5. isim The size of type between Norse and brilliant, standardized as 3-point.
6. isim Stuffing material (as for furniture and mattresses) made of slender, curled woodshavings, as a substitute for hair.

   “These little mangers, with baby dolls representing Jesus, porcelean Josephs and Marys, wide-eyed cows of papier-mâché, and excelsior for straw, were purchased by pious parents for well-behaved children at Christmas-tide.”