(n.) Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence.
(n.) That which rightfully attracts esteem, respect, or consideration; self-respect; dignity; courage; fidelity; especially, excellence of character; high moral worth; virtue; nobleness; specif., in men, integrity; uprightness; trustworthness; in women, purity; chastity.
(n.) A nice sense of what is right, just, and true, with course of life correspondent thereto; strict conformity to the duty imposed by conscience, position, or privilege.
(n.) That to which esteem or consideration is paid; distinguished position; high rank.
(n.) Fame; reputation; credit.
(n.) A token of esteem paid to worth; a mark of respect; a ceremonial sign of consideration; as, he wore an honor on his breast; military honors; civil honors.
(n.) A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament; as, he is an honor to his nation.
(n.) A title applied to the holders of certain honorable civil offices, or to persons of rank; as, His Honor the Mayor. See Note under Honorable.
(n.) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.
(n.) Academic or university prizes or distinctions; as, honors in classics.
(n.) The ace, king, queen, and jack of trumps. The ten and nine are sometimes called Dutch honors.
(n.) To regard or treat with honor, esteem, or respect; to revere; to treat with deference and submission; when used of the Supreme Being, to reverence; to adore; to worship.
(n.) To dignify; to raise to distinction or notice; to bestow honor upon; to elevate in rank or station; to ennoble; to exalt; to glorify; hence, to do something to honor; to treat in a complimentary manner or with civility.
(n.) To accept and pay when due; as, to honora bill of exchange.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spotlight is still the favourite to win best picture A dinner in Beverly Hills was hosted in Spotlight’s honor on Sunday night.
(2) Last month, Black Lives Matter Toronto staged a sit-in during the city’s gay pride march, which the group had been invited to join as an honored guest.
(3) The Hollander test of gastric secretion in response to acute hypoglycemia is a time-honored method of evaluating vagal integrity.
(4) NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said as recently as January that the mascot is "presented in a way that honors Native Americans," and further claimed that nine of 10 Native Americans polled actually support it .
(5) The irony of her image being exchanged in return for commodities in the future,” she said, “seems to recall the way that actual slaves’ bodies were serving as currencies of exchange.” Larson arrived at a different conclusion about the honor.
(6) Thanksgiving this year should be a worldwide celebration to honor the water protectors and recognize the spiritual battle that has sustained us since the arrival of Columbus,” said Cheryl Angel, a Sicangu Lakota.
(7) The memorial service honored those first responders and two civilians who tried to fight the fire and were posthumously named volunteer first responders.
(8) We’ve had over 100 years to honor her with our own actions.
(9) This article reflects upon five surgeons who have been recognized as worthy of this honor.
(10) This week, Reich and his musicians performed three nights of concerts with the Philip Glass Ensemble at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, at a festival in honor of the 50 th anniversary of Nonesuch Records.
(11) Frustrated not over economics but “sacred rights”, they were willing to sacrifice “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor” against the world’s mightiest empire.
(12) The gambit worked, and Miami made four straight NBA Finals appearances, winning championships in 2012 and 2013, James taking Finals MVP honors both times.
(13) Rather than honoring their sacrifice and recognizing their pain, Mr Trump disparaged the religion of the family of an American hero,” Collins wrote.
(14) Honor & Folly ( honorandfolly.com , one bedroom $165 a night, both bedrooms $215, plus a sofabed for children) is a home away from home with a fully stocked kitchen and a cosy living area decorated with vintage and locally crafted furniture.
(15) Honor Westnedge, a lead analyst at consultancy Verdict Retail, said: “ Mothercare must emphasise its needs-driven and essential product offer to new parents, as demand for this product is still there but price-led rivals will be luring shoppers away.
(16) "I did not see this coming," said Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan , tipping his hat to competitor House of Cards, the first online contender for top Emmy honors.
(17) Event recording during anesthesia depends upon the time-honored but inefficient handmade record of the anesthetist.
(18) Then, in December, Abe paid a visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where 14 war criminals from the second world war are honored.
(19) Yet, the time-honored theory of calcium-soap formation enjoys wide acceptance.
(20) In an executive order he ruled that young immigrants who arrived in the US illegally before age 16 and spent at least five continuous years here would be allowed to stay and apply for work permits, providing they had no criminal history and met other criteria, such as graduating from high school or serving honorably in the military.
Honorific
Definition:
(a.) Conferring honor; tending to honor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Morsi reacted to some of the allegations made by the leaked report against the army by promoting three generals this week to honorific titles – a move that epitomises his administration's apparent wish to brush the report's findings under the carpet.
(2) You would also use honorifics when talking about his mother.
(3) Because it's a racial slur and – no matter how many millions it spends trying to sanitize it and silence native peoples – the epithet is not, was not, and will not be an honorific.
(4) Morsi promoted three major-generals to the honorific titles of lieutenant-general.
(5) One tends to associate honorifics with social hierarchy, but they play another critical role: they mark who you regard as belonging to your own group and who you don't.
(6) The 33-year-old law graduate, who asked to be known simply as “Hajj” – an honorific generally used by people who have completed the pilgrimage to Mecca – said the EU would be better off investing in local infrastructure for the long-marginalised Amazigh minority , the Berber tribe whose members run the smuggling networks in Zuwara.
(7) Daw Suu can convince them,” he said, referring to Aung San Suu Kyi with an honorific.
(8) She insists: "If you are a civil servant, refrain from showering other civil servants with honorifics when speaking in public ... Stop addressing each other in deferential language."
(9) What I find inexcusable is his extending the use of honorifics to other government agencies: "The honorable members of the self-defence army have most kindly agreed to send their tanks."
(10) It sounded fresh, momentarily freeing us from the overuse of honorifics by our government officials.
(11) If you are a civil servant, refrain from showering other civil servants with honorifics when speaking in public.
(12) In the morning, Mansour promoted him to the honorific title of Field Marshal – a move that often foreshadows an Egyptian officer's resignation from the military.
(13) Rand Paul has removed some references to himself as “senator” from his websites and official Twitter account, and replaced the honorific with “doctor”, in an apparent rebranding to increase his appeal as a presidential candidate.
(14) As for your superior, he would not use honorifics to you but he would use them when talking about your mother.
(15) The term 'professional' is used with different meanings, sometimes as simply the opposite of 'amateur' but at other times in an honorific sense to suggest a calling in contrast to a job.
(16) "You mean Sayed Qassem Suleimani," he said, giving Suleimani an Arabic honorific reserved for the most esteemed of men.
(17) The sole person in Japan who is not obliged to use honorifics, or rather, is prohibited from using them, is the emperor .
(18) It is in this honorific sense that physicians, attorneys and members of the clergy serve as paradigm professionals.
(19) When he stepped down from chairing Brain of Britain on Radio 4 a year ago, she argued in the Guardian that his trademark, old-fashioned use of the competitors' "honorifics and surnames" gave the show "an in-built quaintness that long outlived the era it might have belonged to".
(20) "Maulawi" or more usually "Maulvi" is an honorific title denoting a senior religious scholar in the local Deobandi school of Islam.