By subscribing to Word Daily and committing to learning a new word every day, you can describe yourself as a learner par excellence. Perhaps we’re bragging a bit, but the example demonstrates the meaning of par excellence: “better or more than all others.” If you have a group of colleagues, and one is the standout worker, they are the employee par excellence. If a business provides a service in a specialized way, the adjective may be used to describe their skill. For example, “The photographer was known as a portraitist par excellence.”