# honor
## English
### Alternative forms

* honour (British, Commonwealth, Ireland)

### Etymology

From Middle English honour, honor, honur, from Anglo-Norman honour, honur, from Old French honor, from Latin honor.
Displaced Middle English menske (“honor, dignity among men”), from Old Norse menskr (“honor”).
The verb is from Middle English honouren, honuren (“to honor”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒn.ə/
* (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈɑ.nɚ/
** Audio (California):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈɔn.ə/
* Rhymes: -ɒnə(ɹ)

### Noun

honor (countable and uncountable, plural honors) (chiefly American spelling)
* (uncountable) Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful).
    The crowds gave the returning general much honor and praise.
** 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.
* (uncountable) The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity.
    He was a most perfect knight, for he had great honor and chivalry.
    His honor was unstained.
** 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3: From Ashes (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:Prothean: Those who share my purpose become allies. Those who do not become casualties. Shepard: Nothing in our fight against the Reapers has been that cut-and-dried. Prothean: Because you still have hope that this war will end with your honor intact. Shepard: I do. Prothean: Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. Prothean: The silence is your answer.
* (countable) 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.
    Honors are normally awarded twice a year: on The Queen's Birthday in June and at the New Year.
    He wore an honor on his breast.
    military honors; civil honors
    Audie Murphy received many honors, such as the Distinguished Service Cross.
** 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:their funeral honours
* A privilege (which honors the person experiencing it).
    I had the honour of dining with the ambassador.
* (in the plural) The privilege of going first.
    I'll let you have the honours, Bob—go ahead.
** (golf) The right to play one's ball before one's opponent.
* A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
    He is an honour to his nation.
* (feudal law) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.
** 1523, Anthony Fitzherbert, Book of Surveying:The lorde of the honour or manour
* (heraldry, countable) The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon (compare honour point).
* (countable, card games) In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit; in some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.
* (in the plural) (Courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank.
    At university I took honours in modern history.

#### Usage notes

* Like many other words ending in -our/-or, this word is usually spelled honour in the UK and honor in the US. However, the spelling honour is considered more formal in the United States, and is standard in formulations such as "the honour of your presence" as used on wedding invitations and other very formal documents.

#### Synonyms

* chivalry
* glory
* gentlemanliness

#### Antonyms

* dishonor, dishonour

#### Derived terms

* affair of honor
* affair of honour
* a prophet has no honor in his own country
* a prophet is not without honor save in his own country
* badge of honor
* badge of honour
* bed of honour
* code of honor
* code of honour
* court of honor
* court of honour
* Cub's honor
* debt of honor
* debt of honour
* dishonorable
* dishonourable
* do the honor
* do the honour
* do the honours
* dubious honor
* dubious honour
* field of honor
* field of honour
* fount of honor
* fount of honour
* guard of honor
* guard of honour
* guest of honor
* guest of honour
* honorable
* honor among thieves
* honorary
* honorary, (honourary, arch.)
* honor bar
* honor box
* honor code
* honoree
* honor farm
* honor guard
* honorific
* honorific, (honourific, nonstandard)
* honor jar
* honor killer
* honor killing
* honor name
* Honor Oak
* honor point
* honor roll
* honors degree
* honor slaying
* honor society
* honors of war
* honor student
* honor system
* honor walk
* honourable
* honour among thieves
* honour bright
* honour code
* honour guard
* honour killer
* honour killing
* honour roll
* honours degree
* honour system
* Hons
* in honor of
* in honour of
* lap of honor
* lap of honour
* last honors
* lie in honor
* maiden of honor
* maid of honor
* maid-of-honor tart
* maid of honor tart
* maid of honour
* maids of honour cake
* maids of honour tart
* matron of honor
* matron of honour
* on one's honor
* place of honor
* point of honor
* right to honor
* Scout's honor
* scout's honor
* Scout's honour
* there is no honor among thieves
* wear as a badge of honor
* wear something as a badge of honor
* word of honor
* word of honour

#### Translations
### Verb

honor (third-person singular simple present honors, present participle honoring, simple past and past participle honored) (chiefly US)
* (transitive) To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of.
    The freedom fighters will be forever remembered and honored by the people.
* (transitive) To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like).
    I trusted you, but you have not honored your promise.
    refuse to honor the test ban treaty
    Some application software does not honor the theme colors chosen in the operating system settings.
* (transitive) To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone).
    Ten members of the profession were honored at the ceremony.
    The prince honored me with an invitation to his birthday banquet.
* (transitive) To make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft, etc.).
    I'm sorry Sir, but the bank did not honour your cheque.

#### Synonyms

* worthy (verb)

#### Antonyms

* despise
* contempt

#### Derived terms

* dishonor, dishonour
* honor in the breach, honour in the breach

#### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### Interjection

honor
* (archaic) On one's honor; truthfully.
** 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations:“Not a ha’porth. Different gangs and different ships. He was tried again for prison breaking, and got made a Lifer.” “And was that—Honour!—the only time you worked out, in this part of the country?” “The only time.”

### References

* ↑ The Emily Post Institute, Formal Wedding Invitation Wording

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan honor, from Latin honōrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [uˈnor]
* IPA: (Balearic) [oˈno]
* IPA: (Valencia) [oˈnoɾ]

### Noun

honor m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural honors)
* honour
    Antonym: deshonor

#### Derived terms

* deshonor

#### Related terms

* honorable
* honorari
* honorífic
* honrar
* seat of honor

### Further reading

* “honor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “honor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “honor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “honor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* honōs (Old Latin)

### Etymology

From Old Latin honōs, a form notably still used by Cicero, of unknown origin; the expected Proto-Indo-European root shape would be *gʰon- or *ǵʰon-, but there are no clear cognates.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈho.nor/, [ˈhɔnɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈo.nor/, [ˈɔːnor]

### Noun

honor m (genitive honōris); third declension
* honor, esteem, dignity, reputation, office

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* dēhonōrō
* exhonōrō
* honestās
* honestus
* honōrō
* honōrus
* inhonōrō

#### Descendants

* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: onore, onori, unore
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Dalmatian: onaur
** Italian: onore
** Neapolitan: annore
** Sicilian: anuri, unuri
*** → Maltese: unur
** Venetan: onor
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: onôr
** Ladin: uneur, unëur
* Gallo-Italic:
** Old Lombard: honor
*** Lombard: onor
** Piedmontese: onor
** Romagnol: unór
* Occitano-Romance:
** Old Catalan: honor, ⇒ honra
*** Catalan: honor, ⇒ honra
** Old Occitan: onor
*** Occitan: onor
* Gallo-Romance:
** Old French: honor, enor, eneur, onor
*** Anglo-Norman: honur
**** → Middle English: honour
***** English: honour, honor
**** → Middle Irish: onóir, anóir
***** Irish: onóir
***** Scottish Gaelic: onoir
*** Middle French: honneur
**** French: honneur
***** → Turkish: onur
* Ibero-Romance:
** Old Galician-Portuguese: onor, ⇒ onrra
*** Galician: honor, ⇒ honra
*** Portuguese: honor, ⇒ honra
** Old Spanish: onor, ⇒ onra, onrra
*** Ladino: onor
*** Spanish: honor, ⇒ honra (see there for further descendants)
* Borrowings:
** → Esperanto: honoro
*** Ido: honoro
** → Old Polish: honor
*** Polish: honor
**** → Old Ruthenian: го́норъ (hónor), го́неръ (hóner)
***** Belarusian: го́нар (hónar)
***** Carpathian Rusyn: го́нор (hónor)
***** Ukrainian: го́нор (hónor); го́нір (hónir) (dialectal)
***** → Middle Russian: го́норъ (gónor)
****** Russian: го́нор (gónor)
** → Proto-Basque: *onore
*** Basque: ohore
** → Romanian: onoare

### References

* “honor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “honor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "honor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* honor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. a man who has held every office (up to the consulship): vir defunctus honoribus a man who has held many offices: honoribus ac reipublicae muneribus perfunctus (De Or. 1. 45) a man who has held many offices: amplis honoribus usus (Sall. Iug. 25. 4) (ambiguous) to be deprived of the rites of burial: sepulturae honore carere (ambiguous) to be honoured, esteemed by some one: esse in honore apud aliquem (ambiguous) to honour, show respect for, a person: aliquem honore afficere, augere, ornare, prosequi (vid. sect. VI. 11., note Prosequi...) (ambiguous) to kindle ambition in some one's mind: aliquem cupiditate honorum inflammare (or aliquem ad cupiditatem honorum inflammare) (ambiguous) to aspire to dignity, high honours: honores concupiscere (opp. aspernari) (ambiguous) to speak of some one respectfully: honoris causa aliquem nominare or appellare (ambiguous) to pay divine honours to some one: alicui divinos honores tribuere, habere (ambiguous) to rise, mount to the honours of office: ad honores ascendere (ambiguous) to reach the highest grade of office: amplissimos honorum gradus assequi, adipisci (ambiguous) to attain to the highest offices: ad summos honores pervenire (cf. also sect. V. 17) (ambiguous) to seek office: petere magistratum, honores (ambiguous) to invest a person with a position of dignity: honores alicui mandare, deferre
* “honor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “honor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
* De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “honōs, -ōris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 288
* ↑ Voyles, Joseph & Barrack, Charles (2009): An Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Early Indo-European Languages

## Lombard
### Etymology

From Latin honōrem.

### Pronunciation

* (Old Lombard) IPA: [oˈnoɾ]

### Noun

honor m
* (Old Lombard) honour
** 1274, Bonvesin de la Riva, Libro de Tre Scrigiure:Quest’ovra al so honor acomenzadha sia:This work began in their honor:

#### Descendants

* Lombard: onor

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* anor, enor, honnor, honur, onor, onur

### Etymology

From Latin honor, honōrem.

### Noun

honor oblique singular, m (oblique plural honors, nominative singular honors, nominative plural honor)
* honor; honour

#### Descendants

* → English: honor, honour
* Middle French: honneur
** French: honneur
* → Middle Irish: onóir, anóir
** Irish: onóir
** Scottish Gaelic: onoir

## Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish honor, from Latin honor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxɔ.nɔr/
* (Lesser Poland):
** (Kielce) IPA: /ˈxɔ.nɔr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔnɔr
* Syllabification: ho‧nor
* Homophone: Honor

### Noun

honor m inan
* (uncountable) honor (sense of self-worth derived from being someone or belonging to some group, obligating one to certain behaviors considered appropriate)
    Synonyms: ambicja, cześć, duma, godność
* (uncountable, literary) honor (privilege which honors the person experiencing it)
    Synonym: zaszczyt
    Antonyms: dyshonor, niehonor
* (countable, bridge, card games) honor (in bridge: an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten, especially of the trump suit; in some other games: an ace, king, queen, or jack)
    Antonym: blotka
    Hypernym: karta
* (literary, in the plural) honors, distinctions (marks of honor, rank, eminence, or excellence)
* (literary, in the plural) honors (signs of reverence and respect)
* (uncountable, Kielce) Synonym of wstyd
    Pan ni ma nijakiego honoru. ― You have no shame.

#### Derived terms

* honorny
* honorowy
* honorować impf
* uhonorować pf
* uhonorowywać impf

#### Related terms

* honornie
* honorowo
* honorność
* honorowość

#### Descendants

* → Old Ruthenian: го́норъ (hónor), го́неръ (hóner)
** Belarusian: го́нар (hónar)
** Carpathian Rusyn: го́нор (hónor)
** Ukrainian: го́нор (hónor); го́нір (hónir) (dialectal)
** → Middle Russian: го́норъ (gónor)
*** Russian: го́нор (gónor)

### Further reading

* honor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* honory in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* honor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* honor in PWN's encyclopedia
* Zygmunt Wasilewski (1895) “honor”, in “Słowniczek wyrazów ludowych we wsi Jaksicach”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 92

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish onor, from Latin honōrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /oˈnoɾ/ [oˈnoɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: ho‧nor

### Noun

honor m (plural honores)
* honor

#### Derived terms

* acuerdo de honor
* campo del honor
* cantón de honor
* capellán de honor
* columna de honor
* con honores de
* crimen de honor
* dama de honor
* dueña de honor
* guardia de honor
* hacer honor de
* hacer los honores
* honores de la guerra
* lance de honor
* libro de honor
* matrícula de honor
* palabra de honor
* señora de honor
* terreno del honor
* tribunal de honor

#### Related terms

* honorable
* honra
* honrar
* honrilla

#### Descendants

* → Bikol Central: onor
* → Tagalog: onor

### Further reading

* “honor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### Anagrams

* honro, honró, horno

## Swedish
### Noun

honor
* indefinite plural of hona