honour
See also: Honour
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈɒnə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɒnə(ɹ)
Noun
edithonour (countable and uncountable, plural honours)
- British, Canadian, 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.
- 1523, Anthony Fitzherbert, Book of Surveying:
- The lorde of the honour or manour
- 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.
- 2019 July 1, “A Game of Flies: naming 230 new species”, in CSIRO[1]:
- Prosopochrysa lemannae is a tiny soldier fly from Judbarra National Park in the Northern Territory. It was named in honour of his colleague Cate Lemann, by Bry the Fly Guy (aka Dr Bryan Lessard), an entomologist at our insect collection.
Derived terms
editTranslations
edithonour — see honor
Verb
edithonour (third-person singular simple present honours, present participle honouring, simple past and past participle honoured)
- British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
Derived terms
editTranslations
edithonour — see honor
Interjection
edithonour
- British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
References
edit- “honour”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Anglo-Norman honour.
Noun
edithonour (plural honours)
Descendants
editReferences
editp. 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
editNoun
edithonour 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.
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