what does virtue means
1. a. Moral excellence and righteousness; goodness. b. An example or kind of moral excellence: the virtue of patience. 2. Archaic Chastity, especially in a woman. 3. A particularly efficacious, good, or beneficial quality; advantage: a plan with the virtue of being practical.irtue-the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong. moral excellence, virtuousness. good, goodness-moral excellence or admirableness; there is much good to be found in people.