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Excelsior, a Latin word often translated as "ever upward" or "still higher", may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Literature and poetry
- "Excelsior" (Longfellow), an 1841 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Excelsior (Macedonski), a book of poems by Alexandru Macedonski
- "Excelsior" (short story), a 1948 short story by P. G. Wodehouse
- "Excelsior" (Whitman), a poem by Walt Whitman
Music
- Excelsior Recordings, an independent record label from the Netherlands
- Excelsior Brass Band, an 1879-1931 brass band from New Orleans
- "Excelsior", a setting of Longfellow's poem to music by Michael William Balfe
Science fiction
- USS Excelsior (NCC-2000), a starship in Star Trek
- Excelsior class starship, in Star Trek
- Excelsior (comics), in Runaways, a support group for former teenage superheroes
Journals and newspapers
- Excélsior, a newspaper published in Mexico City
- Daily Excelsior, a newspaper published in Jammu and Kashmir
Other
- Excelsior!, 1901 short film
- TV Excelsior, a defunct Brazilian television network
- Excelsior Editions, a trade imprint of the book publisher SUNY Press
- Excelsior, an 1881 ballet by Luigi Manzotti
Mottos and catchphrases
- "Excelsior" (motto), the official motto of the state of New York (seen on its seal)
- "Excelsior!", the catchphrase of Stan Lee, who used it at the end of every "Bullpen Bulletins" column in Marvel Comics
- The Al Gore character's catchphrase in South Park episodes, such as "ManBearPig"
- "Excelsior", the characteristic sign-off of Detroit radio personality Mark Scott
- "Excelsior, you fathead", the full catchphrase of radio personality Jean Shepherd
- Motto of the Special Jaegers
Sports
Association football
- Excelsior Mouscron, a former Belgian association football club
- SBV Excelsior, a Dutch association football club
- Excelsior AC Roubaix, a French association football club
- SV Excelsior, a Surinamese association football club
- Birmingham Excelsior F.C., a defunct English association football club
- SS Excelsior (football club), a club from Réunion Island established in 1940
- AS Excelsior, an association football club from Saint-Joseph, Réunion Island
- F.C. Excelsior, Mexican football club that plays in the Segunda División Profesional
- Excelsior Maassluis, a football club from Maassluis, the Netherlands
- Excelsior Stadium, the home of Airdrie United F.C. of the Scottish Football League Second Division
Other
- Excelsior Alpine Club, a traditional alpine climbing club in Budapest, Hungary
- Excelsior Handicap, an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually
- Excelsior Rugby Club, an amateur rugby team that plays in the ILT Southland Wide Premier Division
- Excelsior of Brooklyn, an amateur baseball team that played in Brooklyn, New York
Schools
- Excelsior Academy, a school in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
- Excelsior College, in Albany, New York
- Excelsior, a common high school and grammar school name
- Excelsior High School (Norwalk, California) (1903–1981)
- Excelsior Public School (Excelsior, Minnesota) (1904–1964)
- Excelsior School, a non-denominational school in Pasadena, California
- Excelsior High School, Washougal, Washington
Hotels and restaurants
- Excelsior (restaurant), a former restaurant located in Hotel de l'Europe, Amsterdam
- Excelsior, a common hotel name
- Hotel Excelsior, Berlin (1908–1945)
- Excelsior Hotel Ernst, Cologne (est. 1863)
- The Excelsior (Hong Kong), a hotel in Causeway Bay
Places
Canada
South Africa
United States
- Excelsior, California, former name of Meadow Lake, Nevada County, California
- Excelsior (Oak Ridge, Louisiana), listed on the NRHP in Louisiana
- Excelsior, Minnesota
- Excelsior, Missouri
- Excelsior, Atchison County, Missouri
- Excelsior, Nevada
- Excelsior, West Virginia (disambiguation)
- Excelsior, Wisconsin (disambiguation)
- The Excelsior District, San Francisco, a neighborhood in San Francisco, California
- Excelsior Geyser in the Middle Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
- Excelsior Mountains, in western Nevada in the United States
- Excelsior Springs, Missouri
- Excelsior Township, Michigan
Transportation
- Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycle (Belle Plaine, MN), founded in 1993
- Excelsior Motor Manufacturing & Supply Company (Chicago, IL), a U.S. motorcycle manufacturer operating in Chicago from 1907 to 1931
- Henderson Motorcycle, a division of the above company from 1919 to 1931
- Excelsior Super X, a motorcycle made by the above company from 1925 to 1931
- Motorwagenfabrik Excelsior, a Swiss car maker in business between 1896 and 1919
- Compagnie Nationale Excelsior, a Belgian car manufacturer existing between 1904 and 1932
- Excelsior Motor Company, a British bicycle, motorcycle and car maker
- Excelsior Manxman, a motorcycle made by the above company
- Xcelsior (bus), a transit bus manufactured by New Flyer Industries
- Excelsior tank, a British experimental heavy assault tank
- St Croix Excelsior, ultralight aircraft
- Excelsior (smack), the last surviving fishing smack of the Lowestoft fishing fleet and a member of the National Historic Fleet
- SS Excelsior (ship), one of several steam-powered ships named Excelsior
Nature
- Wood wool, commonly known as excelsior, a wood sliver material used for packaging, for the pads in evaporative coolers, and for other applications
- Fraxinus excelsior, the Linnaean name for the European Ash tree
- Excelsior Eight-eight, a species of butterfly of the Nymphalidae family found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia
Typefaces
- "Excelsior", the American term for a three-point font size
- Excelsior (typeface), a serif typeface well-suited to newsprint
- Fixedsys Excelsior, an unofficial pan-Unicode extension of the popular Microsoft font Fixedsys
Other
- Excelsior Amusement Park, located on Lake Minnetonka in the town of Excelsior, Minnesota
- Project Excelsior, a high-altitude skydiving project in the 1950s
- Excelsior Diamond, a famous diamond, once the largest known
- Excelsior JET, a Java compiler
- Excelsior (chess problem), a chess problem by Sam Loyd
- Excelsior Brigade, a New York infantry brigade in the Union Army in the American Civil War
See also
- All pages beginning with "Excelsior"
- All pages with titles containing Excelsior
- Excel (disambiguation)
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