honor
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- honour (British, Commonwealth, Irish)
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English honour, honor, honur, from Anglo-Norman honour, honur, from Old French honor, from Latin honor.
Displaced Middle English menske (“honor, dignity among men”), from Old Norse menskr (“honor”) (see mensk).
The verb is from Middle English honouren, honuren (“to honor”).
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑn.ɚ/
Audio (US) (file)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒn.ə/
- Rhymes: -ɒnə(ɹ)
NounEdit
honor (countable and uncountable, plural honors) (chiefly American spelling)
- (uncountable) Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful).
- The crowds gave the returning general much honor and praise.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 13:57:
- A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country.
- 1852, Alfred Tennyson, “Stanza X”, in Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 14:
- And when the long-illumined cities flame, / Their ever-loyal iron leader's fame, / With honour, honour, honour, honour to him, / Eternal honour to his name.
- (uncountable) The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity.
- He was a most perfect knight, for he had great honor and chivalry.
- His honor was unstained.
- 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3: From Ashes (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:
- Prothean: Those who share my purpose become allies. Those who do not become casualties.
Shepard: Nothing in our fight against the Reapers has been that cut-and-dried.
Prothean: Because you still have hope that this war will end with your honor intact.
Shepard: I do.
Prothean: Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters.
Prothean: The silence is your answer.
- (countable) A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen.
- Honors are normally awarded twice a year: on The Queen's Birthday in June and at the New Year.
- He wore an honor on his breast.
- military honors; civil honors
- Audie Murphy received many honors, such as the Distinguished Service Cross.
- 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- their funeral honours
- A privilege (which honors the person experiencing it).
- I had the honour of dining with the ambassador.
- (in the plural) The privilege of going first.
- I'll let you have the honours, Bob—go ahead.
- (golf) The right to play one's ball before one's opponent.
- A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
- He is an honour to his nation.
- (feudal law) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.
- 1523, Anthony Fitzherbert, Book of Surveying:
- The lorde of the honour or manour
- (heraldry, countable) The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon (compare honour point).
- (countable, card games) In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit; in some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.
- (in the plural) (Courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank.
- At university I took honours in modern history.
Usage notesEdit
Like many other words ending in -our/-or, this word is usually spelled honour in the UK and honor in the US. However, the spelling honour is considered more formal in the United States, and is standard in formulations such as "the honour of your presence" as used on wedding invitations and other very formal documents.[1]
SynonymsEdit
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- affair of honor
- affair of honour
- a prophet has no honor in his own country
- a prophet is not without honor save in his own country
- badge of honor
- badge of honour
- bed of honour
- code of honor
- code of honour
- court of honor
- court of honour
- debt of honor
- debt of honour
- dishonorable
- dishonourable
- do the honor
- do the honour
- do the honours
- dubious honor
- dubious honour
- field of honor
- field of honour
- fount of honor
- fount of honour
- guard of honor
- guard of honour
- guest of honor
- guest of honour
- honorable
- honor among thieves
- honorary
- honorary, (honourary, arch.)
- honor code
- honoree
- honor guard
- honorific
- honorific, (honourific, nonstandard)
- honor killing
- Honor Oak
- honor point
- honor roll
- honors degree
- honor society
- honor student
- honor system
- honor walk
- honourable
- honour among thieves
- honour bright
- honour code
- honour guard
- honour killer
- honour killing
- honour roll
- honours degree
- honour system
- Hons
- in honor of
- in honour of
- lap of honor
- lap of honour
- maiden of honor
- maid of honor
- maid of honour
- maids of honour cake
- maids of honour tart
- matron of honor
- matron of honour
- on one's honor
- place of honor
- point of honor
- scout's honor
- Scout's honor
- Scout's honour
- there is no honor among thieves
- wear something as a badge of honor
- word of honor
- word of honour
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VerbEdit
honor (third-person singular simple present honors, present participle honoring, simple past and past participle honored) (chiefly US)
- (transitive) To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of.
- The freedom fighters will be forever remembered and honored by the people.
- (transitive) To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like).
- I trusted you, but you have not honored your promise.
- refuse to honor the test ban treaty
- (transitive) To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone).
- Ten members of the profession were honored at the ceremony.
- The prince honored me with an invitation to his birthday banquet.
- (transitive) To make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft, etc.).
- I'm sorry Sir, but the bank did not honour your cheque.
SynonymsEdit
- worthy (verb)
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ The Emily Post Institute, Formal Wedding Invitation Wording
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Old Catalan honor, from Latin honōrem.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
honor m (plural honors)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “honor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “honor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “honor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “honor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
LatinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Latin honōs, a form notably still used by Cicero, of unknown origin; possibly from a Proto-Indo-European root *gʰon- or *ǵʰon-, but lacking any clear cognates.[1][2]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
honor m (genitive honōris); third declension
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | honor | honōrēs |
Genitive | honōris | honōrum |
Dative | honōrī | honōribus |
Accusative | honōrem | honōrēs |
Ablative | honōre | honōribus |
Vocative | honor | honōrēs |
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Basque: ohore
- Dalmatian: onaur
- Esperanto: honoro
- Ido: honoro
- Friulian: onôr
- Italian: onore
- Ladin: uneur, unëur
- Old French: honor, enor, eneur, onor
- Old Occitan: onor
- Piedmontese: onor
- → Old Polish: honor
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
- → Romanian: onoare
- Sardinian: onore, onori, unore
- Sicilian: unuri
- → Maltese: unur
- Spanish: honor
- → Turkish: onur
- Venetian: onor
ReferencesEdit
- “honor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “honor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- honor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- honor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a man who has held every office (up to the consulship): vir defunctus honoribus
- a man who has held many offices: honoribus ac reipublicae muneribus perfunctus (De Or. 1. 45)
- a man who has held many offices: amplis honoribus usus (Sall. Iug. 25. 4)
- (ambiguous) to be deprived of the rites of burial: sepulturae honore carere
- (ambiguous) to be honoured, esteemed by some one: esse in honore apud aliquem
- (ambiguous) to honour, show respect for, a person: aliquem honore afficere, augere, ornare, prosequi (vid. sect. VI. 11., note Prosequi...)
- (ambiguous) to kindle ambition in some one's mind: aliquem cupiditate honorum inflammare (or aliquem ad cupiditatem honorum inflammare)
- (ambiguous) to aspire to dignity, high honours: honores concupiscere (opp. aspernari)
- (ambiguous) to speak of some one respectfully: honoris causa aliquem nominare or appellare
- (ambiguous) to pay divine honours to some one: alicui divinos honores tribuere, habere
- (ambiguous) to rise, mount to the honours of office: ad honores ascendere
- (ambiguous) to reach the highest grade of office: amplissimos honorum gradus assequi, adipisci
- (ambiguous) to attain to the highest offices: ad summos honores pervenire (cf. also sect. V. 17)
- (ambiguous) to seek office: petere magistratum, honores
- (ambiguous) to invest a person with a position of dignity: honores alicui mandare, deferre
- a man who has held every office (up to the consulship): vir defunctus honoribus
- “honor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “honor”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “honōs, -ōris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 288
- ^ Voyles, Joseph & Barrack, Charles (2009): An Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Early Indo-European Languages
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin honor, honōrem.
NounEdit
honor m (oblique plural honors, nominative singular honors, nominative plural honor)
DescendantsEdit
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
honor m inan
DeclensionEdit
DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Old Spanish onor, from Latin honōrem.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
honor m (plural honores)
Derived termsEdit
- acuerdo de honor
- campo del honor
- cantón de honor
- capellán de honor
- columna de honor
- con honores de
- crimen de honor
- dama de honor
- dueña de honor
- guardia de honor
- hacer honor de
- hacer los honores
- honores de la guerra
- lance de honor
- libro de honor
- matrícula de honor
- palabra de honor
- señora de honor
- terreno del honor
- tribunal de honor
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “honor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
AnagramsEdit
SwedishEdit
NounEdit
honor
- indefinite plural of hona.