honour

See also: Honour

English

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Noun

honour (countable and uncountable, plural honours)

1. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, Australian, NZ, and South African standard spelling of honor.
   • 1902, Richard Francis Weymouth, Translation of the New Testament of the Bible, Book 60, 1 Peter 2:4:

     Come to Him, the ever-living Stone, rejected indeed by men as worthless, but in God's esteem chosen and held in honour.

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

     If she have forgot / Honour and virtue.

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

     Godlike erect, with native honour clad.

Antonyms

• dishonour

Derived terms

Terms derived from honour

• dishonourable

• honourable

• honourary

• honourific

Related terms

Related terms

• debt of honour
• guest of honour

• honour code
• honour guard

• honours degree
• honour system

• in honour of

Translations

honour — see honor

Verb

honour (third-person singular simple present honours, present participle honouring, simple past and past participle honoured)

1. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, Australian, NZ, and South African standard spelling of honor.

Translations

honour — see honor

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Middle English

Etymology

Anglo-Norman honour.

Noun

honour (plural honours)

1. honour

Descendants

• English: honour, honor

References

p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.

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Old French

Noun

honour m (oblique plural honours, nominative singular honours, nominative plural honour)

1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of honur

   […] prierent au roi qe mesme le cont purroit estre restorez a ses noun et honour de 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