honour
verb1
British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
- Derived terms
- honouree, honourer
honour
nounUK /ˈɒnə/ · US /ˈɑnəɹ/
1
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.
- The lorde of the honour or manour1523, Anthony Fitzherbert, Book of Surveying:
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- A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 13:57:
- 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.1852, Alfred Tennyson, “Stanza X”, in Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 14:
- 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.2019 July 1, “A Game of Flies: naming 230 new species”, in CSIRO, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2023:
- Derived terms
- honour card, honourless, honourous, honourworthy, place of honour, point of honour, roll of honour, unhonour