right honourable
adj1
A courtesy title applied to a peer below the rank of marquess.
2
A courtesy title applied to a privy counsellor, to the lord mayor of various cities, governor general, and to the prime minister of certain Commonwealth countries.
- I have in honourable and right honourable gentlemen opposite an admirable example of how to cut the painter of a similar league, with the maximum of political advancement, and the minimum of fidelity to a founder.1906, FE Smith, maiden speech to House of Commons, 12 Mar 1906
- Derived terms
- Right Hon, Rt. Hon.
- Related terms
- honourable