Meanings
alternative UK Your Honour
- 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 1771 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 - USformaladdressing a judge or magistrateyou
- 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
Your Honor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Your%20Honor
“Your Honor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Your%20Honor. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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