honour

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(BrE) (AmE honor) noun

1 sth that makes you feel proud

ADJECTIVE

▪ great, rare, special, tremendous

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Eastlake Studio received top honours in the interior design category.

▪ dubious

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Max was given the dubious honour of organizing the children's party.

VERB + HONOUR/HONOR

▪ have

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I had the rare honour of being allowed into the artist's studio.

▪ do sb (formal), give sb

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Will you do me the honour of dining with me?

▪ share

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He shared the honour of being the season's top scorer with Andy Cole.

2 great respect

PREPOSITION

▪ in sb's honour

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They organized a party in his honour.

PHRASES

▪ a guard of honour (esp. BrE)

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The coffin was accompanied by a guard of honour.

▪ (the) guest of honour

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The president was guest of honour at the society's banquet.

▪ a lap of honour (esp. BrE)

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The crowd cheered while the athletes ran their lap of honour.

▪ a mark of honour

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They stood in silence as a mark of honour to the drowned sailors.

▪ the place of honour, the seat of honour

▪ a roll of honour (BrE) (honor roll in AmE)

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The school's roll of honour lists everyone killed in the war.

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She was on the honour roll every semester of high school.

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I never made the honour roll.

3 good reputation

ADJECTIVE

▪ family, national, personal

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He was now satisfied that the family honour had been restored.

VERB + HONOUR/HONOR

▪ defend, fight for, preserve, save, uphold

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She felt she had to defend the honour of her profession.

▪ restore

▪ bring, do

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This biography does great honour to the poet's achievements.

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She brought honour to her country as an Olympic medal-winner.

HONOUR/HONOR + VERB

▪ be at stake

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National honour is at stake in this game.

HONOUR/HONOR + NOUN

▪ code, system

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honour code violations

PREPOSITION

▪ on your honour (old-fashioned)

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I swear on my honour (= very seriously) that I knew nothing about this.

▪ with honour

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The prime minister sought an agreement that would bring peace with honour.

▪ without honour

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a man without honour

PHRASES

▪ a badge of honour

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He saw his injuries as a badge of honour.

▪ a code of honour

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The secret society had a strong code of honour.

▪ a man of honour

▪ a matter of honour, a point of honour

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It is a matter of honour to keep our standards as high as possible.

▪ a sense of honour

▪ sb's word of honour

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I give you my word of honour I will not forget what I owe you.

4 award, official title, etc.

ADJECTIVE

▪ full honours, high, major, top

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the stars who took top honours at the MTV Awards

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television's highest honour

▪ academic, battle, civilian, military, political

VERB + HONOUR/HONOR

▪ award (sb), bestow, confer, give sb

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The Order of Merit is the highest civilian honour that can be conferred on someone.

▪ accept, pick up, receive, scoop (BrE), take, win

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She has confirmed that she will accept the honour of a peerage.

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It was the British who took the honours at last night's Oscars.

▪ earn

HONOUR/HONOR + NOUN

▪ list, system (both in the UK)

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He was made a life peer in the New Year's honours list.

PHRASES

▪ with full military honours

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He was buried with full military honours.

5 honours/honors in education

ADJECTIVE

▪ combined, joint (both BrE)

▪ first-class, second-class (both BrE)

HONOURS/HONORS + NOUN

▪ class (AmE), course (BrE), degree, program (AmE)

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He's in the third year of his honours course.

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I took an honours class in English.

▪ graduate, student

PREPOSITION

▪ honour in

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She earned a bachelor's degree with honours in English.

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joint honours in mathematics and statistics

▪ with honour

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She holds an MBA with honours from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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He passed with second-class honours.

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verb

Honour/honor is used with these nouns as the object: ↑cheque