honoured

English

Alternative forms

• honored (US)
• honor'd, honour'd (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑnɚd/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɒnəd/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: hon‧oured

Adjective

honoured (comparative more honoured, superlative most honoured)

1. (British spelling) Respected, having received honour.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 229e.

     One of them is the time-honoured method of our forefathers

Translations

respected, having received honour

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 榮幸／荣幸 (zh) (róngxìng), 荣幸 (zh) (róngxìng)

• Faroese: æruríkur
• Finnish: kunnioitettu (fi); kunnioittama (respected by); kunnia (fi) (noun, check usage at fi entry), kunnioitettava (fi), kunnianarvoinen, arvoisa (fi)
• French: honoré (fr)
• German: geehrt (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἔντιμος (éntimos)

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• Irish: clúiteach
• Japanese: 光栄に思って (ja) (こうえいにおもって, kōei ni omotte)
• Latin: honorātus
• Maori: taiea, hōnore
• Portuguese: honrado (pt) m
• Russian: уважа́емый (ru) (uvažájemyj), заслу́женный (ru) (zaslúžennyj)

Verb

honoured

1. (British spelling) simple past and past participle of honour