honour

plural honours

1. countableuncountableBritish, 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.

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   The lorde of the honour or manour

   1523, Anthony Fitzherbert, Book of Surveying

   A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 13:57

   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.

   1852, Alfred Tennyson, “Stanza X”, in Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 14

   Prosopochrysa lemannae is a tiny soldier fly from Judbarra National Park in the Northern Territory. It was named in honour of his colleague Cate Lemann, by Bry the Fly Guy (aka Dr Bryan Lessard), an entomologist at our insect collection.

   2019 July 1, “A Game of Flies: naming 230 new species”, in CSIRO, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2023

present singular third person honours · participle present honouring · participle past honoured · past honoured

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

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

plural Honours

1. A female given name from English, a less common spelling of Honor.