HONOUR


Meaning of HONOUR in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a code of honour (= a code of behaviour )

The family’s code of honour meant that they had to take revenge.

an honoured guest (= one who is given special respect and treatment )

They were the honoured guests of the Queen at the Royal Garden Party.

an honours degree (= a British university degree that is above pass level )

The ideal candidate will have an honours degree.

be duty bound/honour bound to do sth

A son is duty bound to look after his mother.

first/second/third class honours degree

fulfil/honour a contract (= do what you have agreed to do )

If you have signed a contract, you have to fulfil it.

fulfil/honour a pledge (= more formal than keep )

The time is coming when they will have to honour that pledge.

honour killing

honour/meet a commitment (= do what you promised to do )

Will they honour their commitment to a ceasefire?

honours degree

honours list

joint honours degree (= a degree in two main subjects )

joint honours

keep/honour an agreement ( also stick to an agreement informal ) (= do what you have agreed )

It’s important to keep to your student loan agreement.

lap of honour BrE, victory lap American English (= a lap to celebrate winning )

The entire team took a victory lap in front of their cheering fans.

maid of honour

matron of honour

meet/fulfil/honour an obligation (= do something that you have a duty to do )

The company has been unable to meet its financial obligations.

All member states must fulfil their obligations according to the EC treaty.

The government failed to honour its obligations under the terms of the agreement.

roll of honour

the roll of honour on the war memorial

single honours

swear on your honour (= promise very strongly )

Do you swear on your honour that you will never tell anyone?

the guest of honour (= the most important guest )

The senator was guest of honour at a reception held at the American Embassy.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

dubious

I therefore inherited the dubious honour of making it available on loan to youth workers.

Snows Ride, a local thoroughfare, was in all probability named in his dubious honour .

Mr Edmond has the dubious honour of being tried by the District of Columbia's first anonymous jury.

Northampton Town's followers bestowed the well-meant, if dubious , honour on Graham Reed, a vigorous and gritty right-back.

Both accepted what might have been regarded as a rather dubious honour .

great

We consider it a great honour for all members of the band and bugles.

It was a great honour to receive it from Trevor Sorbie and Anthony Mascolo.

The higher the payment, the greater the honour to the bride.

It's a great honour and I only hope and pray I won't let Monsieur down.

But it's also a great honour and something that came about quite unexpectedly.

It was considered a great honour not only for Eva, but Salvation Army work as a whole.

It is a great honour for our waiters to take our guests their meals.

It was a great honour dictating his copy.

high

The highest civilian honour she can confer - the Order of Merit - is particularly featured.

Make up your mind that whatever the short-term temptations may be, you will never deviate from the highest standards of honour .

Avice Cam deserved the highest honour that could be given for service to others.

Council leaders want to bestow the highest honour they can in recognition of Clough's achievements with Nottingham Forest.

national

Something like their national honour was at stake.

personal

In a traditional adventure story the pursuit of personal honour is drawn to an absolute conclusion.

Later he had a sterner challenge to face, one which more closely affected his personal sense of honour .

At the heart of these have been the institutions of church and family and a code of behaviour based on personal honour .

rare

Rare honour: A 90-year-old churchgoer has been given a rare honour.

■ NOUN

guard

In contrast Farc released a video showing its freed guerrillas saluting stiffly as they were greeted by an honour guard of rebels.

■ VERB

bestow

Council leaders want to bestow the highest honour they can in recognition of Clough's achievements with Nottingham Forest.

confer

Poets confer honour neither on themselves nor on their work by using a sophisticated diction.

defend

At least she died defending her honour .

give

In May a lunch was given in honour of Emil Gilds.

Eriksson should give the honour to Paul Scholes or Rio Ferdinand.

The Führer has given to me the honour of organizing the conference and, of course, responsibility for his safety.

It is right that they should be given a place of honour in the history of ancient art.

Rare honour: A 90-year-old churchgoer has been given a rare honour.

hold

The following year a centenary festival was held in honour of the listed building.

The patroness of musicians and dancers, marvellous festivals were held in Bast's honour .

name

It was named in honour of our departed hero.

The lectures are named in his honour and organisers hope to attract big names in the future.

The loco was named in honour of General Maude after her return from war service.

receive

He hinted that she might even receive an honour from the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher if she gave her support.

Mrs Hymes becomes the oldest woman ever to receive the honour .

win

The town is only the second in the country to win the honour .

Foulkes won practically every honour in the game as a defender in the Busby Babes team.

But Bruce-who won every domestic honour during his time at Manchester United-is the favourite to land the job.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a badge of honour/courage etc

Privatisation used to be a badge of honour worn with pride by these Ministers.

That, more a badge of honour.

a mark of respect/honour/affection etc

As a mark of respect I did the same thing, followed by Tam and Richie.

As a mark of respect, and in keeping with the tradition of the family, all the Denknetzeyans stayed at Le Richemond.

Before entering it, a student must make a formal bow at the doorway as a mark of respect.

He had expended himself so much for the people Eva made the long journey to his funeral as a mark of respect.

However, he regarded it as a mark of respect and discipline, and old habits died hard.

It is a mark of respect for those you intend to do business with.

It seemed a mark of respect for the dead.

The following day's race was cancelled as a mark of respect.

besmirch sb's honour/reputation

confer a title/degree/honour etc

Poets confer honour neither on themselves nor on their work by using a sophisticated diction.

guard of honour

Kerrison was still standing by the body, rigid as a guard of honour.

There was a guard of honour for the Shah to inspect - more than one hundred troops.

They had a band and a guard of honour outside the station, their backs to a row of railwaymen's cottages.

redound to sb's credit/honour etc

stain sb's name/honour/reputation etc

the dubious honour/distinction/pleasure (of doing sth)

I therefore inherited the dubious honour of making it available on loan to youth workers.

Mr Edmond has the dubious honour of being tried by the District of Columbia's first anonymous jury.

Sarah, left alone, had the dubious distinction of being the last of all the Titfords in Frome.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And what life may be worth when ... the honour is gone ... I can offer no opinion.

But instead of honour the family found only grief.

Des Collins, of the Royal Ontario Museum, doubts that it deserves quite such an honour .

Guest of honour was Brigadier Garton who came up for the evening from his base at Catterick Garrison.

In 472 this feast succeeded to the torchlight procession in honour of Persephone, and that of the Lupercalia.

It was named in honour of our departed hero.

John Ridd's sense of honour is practical as well as idealistic and his motives are relevant outside their historical context.

This was not merely through the intrinsic loss but also because family status and honour were intimately linked to possession of land.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

agreement

In effect, then, chapter 11 says it is better to keep a firm running than to honour debt agreements .

Moreover, Gosteleradio claimed that Interfax had never honoured an agreement to remit 50 percent of its earnings to Radio Moscow.

The orang caretakers asked Wartaputra to honour his agreement and refused to cooperate with the new plans.

Of course I shall honour our agreement to the letter.

commitment

I repeat clearly today that the Government will continue to honour their commitment to people in that category.

Developing countries need environmentally sound technologies to honour their sustainability commitments under the Convention.

They would have to honour their homework commitments and take part from time to time in residential field trips and work experience courses.

Once again it did not honour its commitments , he says, thereby making a mockery of the Good Friday agreement.

We hope that the factions will honour their commitment to a ceasefire in Mogadishu.

It called on the Soviet Union to honour its international commitments .

The Government did not honour this commitment when unemployment benefit became taxable in July 1982.

contract

Lawrence has insisted he wants to stay and honour his contract at Middlesbrough and make them a force in the Premier division.

The union's basic demand, that employers honour the breached contract , can be fudged.

Trinity say that no extra cash is available and that Jackson must honour his existing contract .

Saga says it tried to force the hotel to honour the contract , but it refused.

To Blue's horror, however, the foreign companies decided to honour their original contracts .

memory

Joyce has now learned to honour her father's memory and to see his worth.

pledge

The Bishop says John Major should honour his pledge to raise the level of aid.

Perhaps the time is coming when they will have to honour that pledge .

Instead he should press Kennedy to honour Eisenhower's unwritten pledge to provide Polaris as an alternative to Skybolt.

They have been undermined by the failure of governments to honour pledges to provide personnel and funds.

promise

Thaksin needs a large amount of funds if he is to honour the populist promises that got him elected.

The King was not called upon to honour his promise .

If he makes statements from the Dispatch Box, he should be a man of honour and honour his promises .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a badge of honour/courage etc

Privatisation used to be a badge of honour worn with pride by these Ministers.

That, more a badge of honour.

a mark of respect/honour/affection etc

As a mark of respect I did the same thing, followed by Tam and Richie.

As a mark of respect, and in keeping with the tradition of the family, all the Denknetzeyans stayed at Le Richemond.

Before entering it, a student must make a formal bow at the doorway as a mark of respect.

He had expended himself so much for the people Eva made the long journey to his funeral as a mark of respect.

However, he regarded it as a mark of respect and discipline, and old habits died hard.

It is a mark of respect for those you intend to do business with.

It seemed a mark of respect for the dead.

The following day's race was cancelled as a mark of respect.

guard of honour

Kerrison was still standing by the body, rigid as a guard of honour.

There was a guard of honour for the Shah to inspect - more than one hundred troops.

They had a band and a guard of honour outside the station, their backs to a row of railwaymen's cottages.

the dubious honour/distinction/pleasure (of doing sth)

I therefore inherited the dubious honour of making it available on loan to youth workers.

Mr Edmond has the dubious honour of being tried by the District of Columbia's first anonymous jury.

Sarah, left alone, had the dubious distinction of being the last of all the Titfords in Frome.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As a result, theories of the type proposed by Althusser and Poulantzas can not honour their own claims to completeness.

Earlier this year Cardinal Glemp repudiated this agreement but he has now been prevailed upon to honour it.

Going down now to a place where his certainties would finally be honoured.

He says because my father died early in 1937 he's never been honoured for his work.

It seems a strange way to honour such an amazing phenomenon.

Pay scales either do not exist or are honoured mainly in the breach.

Professor's research honoured at poly A Guisborough professor's research work has been honoured with a new post at Teesside Polytechnic.

We hope that the factions will honour their commitment to a ceasefire in Mogadishu.

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