单词 | new year's honours list |
释义 | > as lemmasNew Year's Honours List New Year's Honours n. (also New Year Honours; also with lower-case initials) chiefly British (in full New Year's Honours List) (a list of) awards and titles conferred by the sovereign at New Year; cf. honours list n. (b) at honour n. Compounds 2b. ΚΠ 1886 Times of India 7 Jan. 6/3 The New Year Honours... The Jame-Jamshed says that the disappointment caused by the distribution of New Year's honours this year is greater than ever. 1891 Times of India 27 Jan. 7/3 The strictures in the English press upon the New Year's honours list as regards the Indian contingent are amazingly unanimous. 1899 Speaker 7 Jan. 1/2 The publication of the New Year honours. 1935 Official Gaz. Kenya 26 Feb. 164 His name was included in the last New Year's Honours list, when he was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. 1972 Times 6 May 1/4 Sir James..was appointed KCB in the New Year Honours. 2013 Guardian (Nexis) 22 Aug. 34 He was made an MBE in the 1989 New Year's honours. < as lemmas |
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