HONORABLE


Meaning of HONORABLE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

honorable discharge

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

discharge

An honorable discharge would mean that any reserve unit with openings would have to accept her application to fly.

He wanted his honorable discharge reinstated.

Then the Air Force could hardly acquiesce to an honorable discharge .

He received an honorable discharge in 1968.

With a less than honorable discharge , Smith may have difficulty obtaining employment.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Dunne was an honorable and conscientious public servant.

Military service was considered an honorable career choice.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Ah, but my dear honorable chief, my daughter is just a child.

I do not come to bring you help, but only pain, To show you that your son was honorable .

Jasper was going to do the honorable thing, but three days before the wedding the woman miscarried.

My migrant-worker parents were good people who lived honorable , hardworking lives, but I wanted some-thing more.

The honorable course is to go home from the dance with the one who brought you.

They are resilient, honorable , loyal and unabashedly in love with their fighters, often serving as devoted father figures.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.