Your Honor

pronoun

you

Meanings

pronoun

alternative UK Your Honour

  1. formalobsoleteaddressing someone of higher rank or status than oneselfyou

    Touching the firſt, I refer my ſelf to your Honors favourable Opinion, and the Character which my Lord S. and others ſhall give of me: […]

    1626 September 17 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XXV. To the Right Honourable the Lord Conway, Principal Secretary of State to His Majesty, at Hampton Court.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section IV, page 177
    1 more example

    The numbers of the French have been greatly magnified, as your Honor may see by a copy of the enclosed journal of a person, whom I sent out to gain intelligence.

    1847, George Washington, The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, page 26
  2. USformaladdressing a judge or magistrateyou
  3. Philippinesformalyou (a form of address for a representative or senator in the Philippine Congress during hearings and inquiries, and for canvassers during the canvass of electoral results).

Translations

Arabic حَضْرَتُك
  • حَضْرَتُك (ḥaḍratuk)Translations
German Herr Richter, Herr Vorsitzender
  • Herr RichterTranslations
  • Herr VorsitzenderTranslations
  • Frau RichterinTranslations
  • Frau VorsitzendeTranslations
Italian Vostro Onore (in dubbing), Signor Giudice
  • Vostro Onore (in dubbing)Translations
  • Signor GiudiceTranslations
  • Signora GiudiceTranslations
Portuguese Meritíssimo
  • MeritíssimoTranslations
Spanish Su Señoría
  • Su SeñoríaTranslations
Cite this entry
APA

Your Honor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Your%20Honor

MLA

“Your Honor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Your%20Honor. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Your Honor,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Your%20Honor.

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