honor

• honour (British, Commonwealth, Irish)

From Middle English honour, honor, honur, from Anglo-Norman honour, honur, from Old French honor, from Latin honor. Displaced Middle English menske (“honor, dignity among men”), from Old Norse menskr (“honor”) (see mensk).

The verb is from Middle English honouren, honuren (“to honor”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.nɚ/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒ.nə/
• Rhymes: -ɒnə(ɹ)

honor (countable and uncountable, plural honors) (chiefly American spelling)

1. (uncountable) recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright and/or competent)

   The crowds gave the returning general much honor and praise.

   • The King James Bible, Matthew 13.57:

     A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country.

2. (uncountable) the state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity

   He was a most perfect knight, for he had great honor and chivalry.

   His honor was unstained.

3. (countable) a token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen

   Honors are normally awarded twice a year: on The Queen's Birthday in June and at the New Year.

   He wore an honor on his breast.

   military honors; civil honors

   Audie Murphy received many honors, such as the Distinguished Service Cross.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Dryden:

     their funeral honors

4. a privilege

   I had the honour of dining with the ambassador.

5. (in the plural) the privilege of going first

   I'll let you have the honours, Bob—go ahead.

   1. (golf) the right to play one's ball before one's opponent.
6. a cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.

   He is an honour to his nation.

7. (feudal law) a seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)

8. (heraldry, countable) the center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon (compare honour point)
9. (countable, card games) In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.
10. (in the plural) (courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank

    At university I took honours in modern history.

Like many other words ending in -our/-or, this word is usually spelled honour in the UK and honor in the US. However, the spelling honour is considered more formal in the United States, and is standard in formulations such as "the honour of your presence" as used on wedding invitations and other very formal documents.[1]

• chivalry
• glory
• gentlemanliness

• dishonor

honor (third-person singular simple present honors, present participle honoring, simple past and past participle honored) (chiefly US)

1. (transitive) to think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of

   The freedom fighters will be forever remembered and honored by the people.

2. (transitive) to conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like)

   I trusted you, but you have not honored your promise.

   refuse to honor the test ban treaty

3. (transitive) to confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone)

   Ten members of the profession were honored at the ceremony.

   The prince honored me with an invitation to his birthday banquet.

4. (transitive) to make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft, etc.)

   I'm sorry Sir, but the bank did not honour your cheque.

• worthy (verb)

• despise
• contempt

• dishonor, dishonour

From Latin honōrem, accusative of honor.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /oˈno/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /uˈnor/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /oˈnoɾ/

honor m (plural honors)

1. honour

• honos (Old Latin)

From Old Latin honos, a form notably still used by Cicero, of unknown origin; possibly from a Proto-Indo-European root *gʰon- or *ǵʰon-, but lacking any clear cognates.[1][2]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈho.nor/, [ˈhɔ.nɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.nor/, [ˈoː.nor]

honor m (genitive honōris); third declension

1. honor, esteem, dignity, reputation, office

Third declension.

• honor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• honor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• honor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• honor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a man who has held every office (up to the consulship): vir defunctus honoribus
    
  • a man who has held many offices: honoribus ac reipublicae muneribus perfunctus (De Or. 1. 45)
    
  • a man who has held many offices: amplis honoribus usus (Sall. Iug. 25. 4)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be deprived of the rites of burial: sepulturae honore carere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be honoured, esteemed by some one: esse in honore apud aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) to honour, show respect for, a person: aliquem honore afficere, augere, ornare, prosequi (vid. sect. VI. 11., note Prosequi...)
    
  • (ambiguous) to kindle ambition in some one's mind: aliquem cupiditate honorum inflammare (or aliquem ad cupiditatem honorum inflammare)
    
  • (ambiguous) to aspire to dignity, high honours: honores concupiscere (opp. aspernari)
    
  • (ambiguous) to speak of some one respectfully: honoris causa aliquem nominare or appellare
    
  • (ambiguous) to pay divine honours to some one: alicui divinos honores tribuere, habere
    
  • (ambiguous) to rise, mount to the honours of office: ad honores ascendere
    
  • (ambiguous) to reach the highest grade of office: amplissimos honorum gradus assequi, adipisci
    
  • (ambiguous) to attain to the highest offices: ad summos honores pervenire (cf. also sect. V. 17)
    
  • (ambiguous) to seek office: petere magistratum, honores
    
  • (ambiguous) to invest a person with a position of dignity: honores alicui mandare, deferre
    
• honor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• honor in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

• anor, enor, honnor, honur, onor, onur

From Latin honor.

honor m (oblique plural honors, nominative singular honors, nominative plural honor)

1. honor; honour

• → English: honor, honour
• French: honneur
• → Middle Irish: onóir, anóir
  • Irish: onóir
  • Scottish Gaelic: onoir

From Latin honor.

honor m inan

1. honour, honor (praiseworthiness, respect)

From Old Spanish onor, from Latin honor, honoris.

• IPA^(key): /oˈnoɾ/

honor m (plural honores)

1. honor

• honorable
• honrar

• “honor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

• honro, honró, horno

honor

1. indefinite plural of hona