Excelsior

Look up excelsior in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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

• Excelsior, Alberta

South Africa

• Excelsior, Free State

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, McDowell County, West Virginia
  • Excelsior, Upshur County, West Virginia
  • Excelsior, Webster County, West Virginia
• Excelsior, Wisconsin (disambiguation)
  • Excelsior, Richland County, Wisconsin
  • Excelsior, Sauk County, Wisconsin
• 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)