Word Finder - honor

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Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful)

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The crowds gave the returning general much honor and praise.

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The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity

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

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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

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

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A privilege

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I had the honour of dining with the ambassador.

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(in the plural) the privilege of going first

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

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A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.

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He is an honour to his nation.

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

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The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon (compare honour point)

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In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.

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(in the plural) (courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank

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At university I took honours in modern history.

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To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of

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

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

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

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To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone)

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Ten members of the profession were honored at the ceremony.

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

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

When the rich believe the poor will not honor property rights.

I have my honor to regain.

We're the guests of honor tonight.

I fought side by side with his older brother years ago at the end of the war; I know the type of honor that runs in his family.

I have honor, Claire.

Do you promise to love, honor and obey?

No. But if I were trying to defend my honor, you'd be the one I would choose to take up there.

He had honor and integrity.

There's an ounce of honor in you.

My dear, do I have the honor of finally meeting the famous psychic tipster or were you but the helper of the young mother who died so suddenly in that delightful New Hampshire town?

Her throat tightened, understanding the honor despite his nonchalant delivery.

It will shock and honor him.

I know how devoted to the precious Code and your honor you are, Gabriel.

Give them to the woman whom you shall honor most of all.

Though countless have paid for me, never has a man risked paying so dearly for my body; his honor, his reputation, his family and even his soul.

No matter what, I'll continue to honor my obligations and protect you.

The two boys ran for the teacher's shoes, and each claimed the honor of carrying them to him.

You care more for the honor of a dead-dead woman who betrayed you.

Despite the honor of his visit, she couldn't help but feel a trickle of familiar coldness at his still gaze.

She was worth his honor and his life.

Six ladies, all carrying campaign signs, formed an honor guard around the vehicle.

That Rhyn of all his brothers would be granted such an honor as an Ancient.s mate made a mockery of everything.

It's ready, your honor; you can split a Frenchman in half with it!

After breakfast Ozma announced that she had ordered a holiday to be observed throughout the Emerald City, in honor of her visitors.

What Pierre did not know was that the place where they presented him with bread and salt and wished to build a chantry in honor of Peter and Paul was a market village where a fair was held on St. Peter's day, and that the richest peasants (who formed the deputation) had begun the chantry long before, but that nine tenths of the peasants in that villages were in a state of the greatest poverty.

An institution upholding honor, the source of emulation, is one similar to the Legion d'honneur of the great Emperor Napoleon, not harmful but helpful to the success of the service, but not a class or court privilege.

Marya Ignatevna Peronskaya, a thin and shallow maid of honor at the court of the Dowager Empress, who was a friend and relation of the countess and piloted the provincial Rostovs in Petersburg high society, was to accompany them to the ball.

She had washed behind her ears just as carefully, and when she entered her drawing room in her yellow dress, wearing her badge as maid of honor, her old lady's maid was as full of rapturous admiration as the Rostovs' servants had been.

I wished to ask the countess and you to do me the honor of coming to tea and to supper.

Only now was he beginning to understand that her staying depended less on duty and honor and more on him.

All this misery, and money, and Dolokhov, and anger, and honor--it's all nonsense... but this is real....

As for lodging, it is true they were but poorly entertained, though what they found an inconvenience was no doubt intended for an honor; but as far as eating was concerned, I do not see how the Indians could have done better.

The guest of honor was an aide-de-camp of Napoleon's, there were also several French officers of the Guard, and a page of Napoleon's, a young lad of an old aristocratic French family.

The seat of honor was given to Sasha.

It's a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in him, he's a scoundrel.

Bekleshev and Theodore Uvarov, who had arrived with him, paused at the doorway to allow him, as the guest of honor, to enter first.

I should be thankful to do nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the honor to choose me to be their marshal; it was all I could do to get out of it.

We all profess the Christian law of forgiveness of injuries and love of our neighbors, the law in honor of which we have built in Moscow forty times forty churches--but yesterday a deserter was knouted to death and a minister of that same law of love and forgiveness, a priest, gave the soldier a cross to kiss before his execution.

I have the honor to be one of your wife's adorers.

He was defending her honor.

And to this day, millions of people remember and honor the name of Gautama, as that of the great lover of men.

I give you my word of honor," said Napoleon, forgetting that his word of honor could carry no weight--"I give you my word of honor that I have five hundred and thirty thousand men this side of the Vistula.

To have one's ear pulled by the Emperor was considered the greatest honor and mark of favor at the French court.

Do us the honor to come in, there's plenty of everything in the master's house.

Was it honor that forced him to put aside this time and effort to her gain, or was it something else?

Basically. Or would've been, if Darkyn hadn't decided to honor the informal deal he made with her.

It.d be an honor to kill you.

I am honor bound to stay.

He never did anything without planning it carefully ahead of time, and he'd never broken his honor code, even with Qatwalis.

Honor cannot, he said firmly.