honour

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒnə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɒnə(ɹ)

Noun

honour (countable and uncountable, plural honours)

1. British spelling, Canadian spelling, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.

   Honours are 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, Matthew 13:57:

     A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country.

   • 1852, Alfred Tennyson, “Stanza X”, in Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, page 14:

     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.

   • 1523, Anthony Fitzherbert, Book of Surveying:

     The lorde of the honour or manour

Translations

Verb

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

1. British spelling, Canadian spelling, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.

Translations

Interjection

honour

1. British spelling, Canadian spelling, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.

References

• “honour”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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.

Old French

Noun

honour oblique singular, 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