honournoun
UK US honor uk/ˈɒn.ər/us/ˈɑː.nɚ/honour noun (RESPECT)
B2 [ U ] a quality that combines respect, being proud, and honesty:
B2 in order to celebrate or show great respect for someone or something:
to feel you must do something because it is morally right, even if you do not want to do it:
to make someone proud and happy by doing or being something:
the way to address or refer to a judge:
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- It's an honour to have you here today, Mr President.
- Great honour attaches to winning this award.
- The party was held in honour of Vivienne Westwood, that doyenne of British fashion.
- It's an honour to meet you Sir.
- He felt that his honour was at stake.
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Morality and rules of behaviour
- antisocial
- bioethics
- book
- claim
- conscience
- decency
- double standard
- morality
- moralize
- morally
- norm
- object lesson
- social conscience
- social contract
- spirit
- the rights and wrongs idiom
- the ways of the world idiom
- value
- voice
- wrong
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honour noun (REWARD)
[ C ] a reward, prize, or title that publicly expresses admiration or respect:
If you complete a school or university qualification with honours, you achieve a high standard.
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- He graduated with a second-class honours degree in physics.
- Tom has just graduated with first-class honours in psychology.
- Adrian has a joint honours ( double honours) degree in English and philosophy.
- The Colonel was buried with full military honours.
- Full military honours and a 21-gun salute marked his funeral.
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Prizes, rewards and medals
- Academy Award
- award
- blue ribbon
- booby prize
- bronze
- bronze medal
- colour
- gong
- Grammy
- honor
- honorable
- honourable mention
- Pulitzer Prize
- Purple Heart
- quid pro quo
- reward
- ribbon
- stake
- trophy cabinet
- VC
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Idiom(s)
honourverb [ T ]
UK US honor uk/ˈɒn.ər/us/ˈɑː.nɚ/honour verb [ T ] (RESPECT)
C1 to show great respect for someone or something, especially in public:
To honour a promise or agreement is to do what you said you would:
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- Children need to be taught to honour other people's opinions.
- The treaty honours the rights of both nations.
- The press nowadays seems incapable of honouring anyone's privacy.
- There actually is a rule about not blocking the front entrance, but no one honours it.
- The fund was set up to honour the memory of Joe's grandmother, a tireless social campaigner.
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Showing respect and admiration
- admiration
- admire
- admiring
- awe
- awestruck
- glory
- hero worship
- honorific
- idolatry
- idolize
- impress
- recognition
- regard
- respectful
- reverential
- salute
- sb deserves a medal idiom
- sit
- sit at the feet of sb idiom
- stan
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honour verb [ T ] (REWARD)
to give someone public praise or a reward:
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Praising and applauding
- a pat on the back idiom
- acclaim
- acclamation
- accolade
- adulate
- cheer
- exalt
- extol
- felicitations
- fete
- full marks to sb idiom
- lay
- pat
- praise
- recognize
- rhapsodic
- rhapsody
- round of applause idiom
- shout-out
- sing
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