Honor

Word HONOR
Character 5
Hyphenation hon or
Pronunciations /ˈɒn.ə/

Definitions and meanings of "Honor"

What do we mean by honor?

High respect, as that shown for special merit; recognition or esteem. noun

Great privilege. noun

Good name; reputation. noun

A source or cause of credit. noun

A mark, token, or gesture of respect or distinction, such as a military decoration. noun

Public acts or ceremonies showing respect. noun

Special recognition for unusual academic achievement. noun

A program of advanced study for exceptional students. noun

Social courtesies offered to guests. noun

High rank. noun

Used with His, Her, or Your as a title and form of address for certain officials, such as judges and the mayors of certain cities. noun

A sense of principled uprightness of character; personal integrity. noun

A code of integrity, dignity, and pride, chiefly among men, that was maintained in some societies, as in feudal Europe, by force of arms. noun

A woman's chastity or reputation for chastity. noun

The right of being first at the tee in golf. noun

Any of the four or five highest cards, especially the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten of the trump suit, in card games such as bridge or whist. noun

Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful)

The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity

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

A privilege

(in the plural) the privilege of going first

A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.

(feudal law) a seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended

The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon (compare honour point)

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

Synonyms and Antonyms for Honor

The word "honor" in example sentences

_Let them be counted worthy of double honor: _ or, _Let them be dignified with double honor_. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

It isn't money -- it is honor -- _honor_, do you hear? ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

"Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially --," 1 Tim.v. 17: whether we take _double honor_ here for reverence or maintenance, or both; yet how can we esteem the _elders ruling well worthy of double honor_ without some submission to their rule? ❋ Unknown (N/A)

We should honor, love and _obey_ our parents while we are young; and we should still _love_ and _honor_ them when we are older. ❋ Joseph Stump (N/A)

Council-General, -- some of which depositions were upon oath, some upon honor, and others neither upon _oath_ nor _honor_, but all or most of which were of an irregular and irrelevant nature, and not fit or decent to be taken by a British magistrate, or to be transmitted to a British government. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)

_unworthy_, and dignor, _deem worthy of_; as, -- dignī honōre, _worthy of honor (i.e. in point of honor_); fidē indignī, _unworthy of confidence_; mē dignor honōre, _I deem myself worthy of honor_. ❋ Charles E. Bennett (N/A)

Although his pride was based on no visible achievement, Mahad often used the term honor. ❋ Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2010)

"It's odd to hear the term honor associated with any of this," she said. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Tate read the voluminous set of laws that defined the term honor and saw obedience to the spirit of the laws as the chief goal of the knighthood. ❋ Kirchoff, Mary (1993)

A state of living stupidly: We here in the US tend to use the phrase "honor culture" to describe recent arrivals from a number of foreign countries. ❋ John Timmer (2011)

He'd play an electronics store sales clerk whose competition with a rival for the title honor (in hopes of winning the affections of a pretty cashier) turns brutal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That McCain - Palin are using this issue is nothing but cheap politics, a final bit of desperation, and expected from those for whom the term honor is no longer a part of their lexicon. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mencken's other hates were respectability, poetry that "only Christian Scientists can understand" and Washington DC and its "umbilicari, the booboisie", on whose lips the word honor, "save for the structural integrity of women, has only comic significance". ❋ Simon Jenkins (2011)

A resolution in his honor is also expected to be adopted at the end of the day. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The word honor is designated for those books which do not win the award, but are considered “worthy of attention.” ❋ ____Maggie (2007)

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