honorable mention

noun

A formal recognition given to a work or candidate of high merit that falls below the level of the main prizes or top honors in a competition, examination or award process.

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Meanings

nounhonorable mention (plural honorable mentions)

plural honorable mentions · alternative UK honourable mention

  1. idiomaticA formal recognition given to a work or candidate of high merit that falls below the level of the main prizes or top honors in a competition, examination or award process.
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    How good are DCGs from a linguistic perspective? Well, mixed. At one stage (in the early 1980s) they were pretty much state of the art. They made it possible to code complex grammars in a clear way, and to explore the interplay of syntactic and semantic ideas. Certainly any history of parsing in computational linguistics would give DCGs an honourable mention.

    2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §8.3

    Synonyms: honorary mention

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA formal recognition given to a work or candidate of high merit that falls below the level of the main prizes or top honors in a competition, examination or award process.

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More synonyms by meaning

nounan official recognition of merit

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awardaccoladehonor
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 榮譽獎 /荣誉奖
  • 榮譽獎 /荣誉奖 (róngyùjiǎng)award or recognition
Finnish kunniamaininta
  • kunniamainintaaward or recognition
French mention honorable
  • mention honorableaward or recognition
Hungarian (külön) elismerés/dicséret
  • (külön) elismerés/dicséretaward or recognition
Portuguese menção honrosa
  • menção honrosaaward or recognition
Russian почётное упоминание
  • почётное упоминание (počótnoje upominanije)award or recognition
Tagalog pangaraling banggit
  • pangaraling banggitaward or recognition
Thai รางวัลชมเชย
  • รางวัลชมเชย (raang-wan-chom-chəəi)award or recognition
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APA

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MLA

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

Chicago

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

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