Noun: honor
| Singular | honor |
| Plural | honors |
Sample Sentences
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The crowds gave the returning general much honor and praise.
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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:]
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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:]
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He was a most perfect knight, for he had great honor and chivalry.
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His honor was unstained.
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Prothean: Those who share my purpose become allies. Those who do not become casualties.
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Shepard: Nothing in our fight against the Reapers has been that cut-and-dried.
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Prothean: Because you still have hope that this war will end with your honor intact.
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Shepard: I do.
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Prothean: Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters.
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Prothean: The silence is your answer. [2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3: From Ashes (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:]
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Honors are normally awarded twice a year: on The Queen's Birthday in June and at the New Year.
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He wore an honor on his breast.
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military honors; civil honors
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Audie Murphy received many honors, such as the Distinguished Service Cross.
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their funeral honours [1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
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I had the honour of dining with the ambassador.
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I'll let you have the honours, Bob—go ahead.
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He is an honour to his nation.
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The lorde of the honour or manour [1523, Anthony Fitzherbert, Book of Surveying:]
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At university I took honours in modern history.
Nouns inflected like honor
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English honour, honor, honur, from Anglo-Norman honour, honur, from Old French honor, from Latin honor.
2. Displaced native Old English hād and Middle English menske (“honor, dignity among men”) (though survived in descendant mense (“property, civility, etc.”)), from Old Norse menskr (“honor”).
3. The verb is from Middle English honouren, honuren (“to honor”). See: Middle English Nouns '
honour', Latin Nouns '
honor', Middle English Nouns '
menske', Old Norse Nouns '
menskr'.