Dictionary

honour en · INTJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈɒnə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈɑnəɹ/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.

honour en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɒnə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈɑnəɹ/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
   • The lorde of the honour or manour 1523, Anthony Fitzherbert, Book of Surveying:
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • Honours are normally awarded twice a year: on The Queen's Birthday in June and at the New Year.

Forms

Deriveds

roll of honour · honour card · point of honour · unhonour · honourous · honourless · place of honour · honourworthy

honour en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈɒnə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈɑnəɹ/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.

Forms

Deriveds

honourer · honouree