honour
See also: Honour
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
honour (countable and uncountable, plural honours)
- British spelling, Canadian spelling, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
- Honours are normally awarded twice a year: on The Queen's Birthday in June and at the New Year.
- 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.
- 1523, Anthony Fitzherbert, Book of Surveying:
- The lorde of the honour or manour
Translations edit
honour — see honor
Verb edit
honour (third-person singular simple present honours, present participle honouring, simple past and past participle honoured)
- British spelling, Canadian spelling, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
Translations edit
honour — see honor
Interjection edit
honour
- British spelling, Canadian spelling, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
References edit
- “honour”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
honour (plural honours)
Descendants edit
References edit
p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.
Old French edit
Noun edit
honour oblique singular, m (oblique plural honours, nominative singular honours, nominative plural honour)
- Late Anglo-Norman spelling of honur
- […] prierent au roi qe mesme le cont purroit estre restorez a ses noun et honour de marquys queux il avoit pardevant.
- […] prayed to the king that even the count could be restored to his name and his honour of marquee that he had before
- […] prierent au roi qe mesme le cont purroit estre restorez a ses noun et honour de marquys queux il avoit pardevant.