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See also:Honour
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key):/ˈɒnə(ɹ)/
Audio(Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes:-ɒnə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]honour(countableanduncountable,pluralhonours)
- British,Canadian,Commonwealth,andIrelandstandard spelling ofhonor.
- Honoursare normally awarded twice a year: on The Queen's Birthday in June and at the New Year.
- 1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,Matthew13:57:
- A prophet is not withouthonour,save in his own country.
- 1852,Alfred Tennyson,“Stanza X”, inOde on the Death of theDuke of Wellington,London:Edward Moxon,[…],→OCLC,page14:
- And when the long-illumined cities flame, / Their ever-loyal iron leader's fame, / Withhonour,honour,honour,honourto him, / Eternalhonourto his name.
- 1523,Anthony Fitzherbert,Book of Surveying:
- The lorde of thehonouror manour
Translations
[edit]honour—seehonor
Verb
[edit]honour(third-person singular simple presenthonours,present participlehonouring,simple past and past participlehonoured)
- British,Canadian,Commonwealth,andIrelandstandard spelling ofhonor.
Translations
[edit]honour—seehonor
Interjection
[edit]honour
- British,Canadian,Commonwealth,andIrelandstandard spelling ofhonor.
References
[edit]- “honour”,inLexico,Dictionary;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]honour(pluralhonours)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]p. 1,Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century,Frederick Furnivalled.EETS.Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.
Old French
[edit]Noun
[edit]honouroblique singular,m(oblique pluralhonours,nominative singularhonours,nominative pluralhonour)
- Late Anglo-Norman spelling ofhonur
- […]prierent au roi qe mesme le cont purroit estre restorez a ses noun ethonourde marquys queux il avoit pardevant.
- […]prayed to the king that even the count could be restored to his name and his honour of marquee that he had before
- […]prierent au roi qe mesme le cont purroit estre restorez a ses noun ethonourde marquys queux il avoit pardevant.
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