honour

See also: Honour

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒnə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɒnə(ɹ)

Noun

honour (countable and uncountable, plural honours)

1. British, Canadian, 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

honour — see honor

Verb

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

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

Translations

honour — see honor

Interjection

honour

1. British, Canadian, 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