I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a code of honour (= a code of behaviour )
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The family’s code of honour meant that they had to take revenge.
an honoured guest (= one who is given special respect and treatment )
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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 )
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The ideal candidate will have an honours degree.
be duty bound/honour bound to do sth
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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 )
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If you have signed a contract, you have to fulfil it.
fulfil/honour a pledge (= more formal than keep )
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The time is coming when they will have to honour that pledge.
honour killing
honour/meet a commitment (= do what you promised to do )
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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 )
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It’s important to keep to your student loan agreement.
lap of honour BrE, victory lap American English (= a lap to celebrate winning )
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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 )
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The company has been unable to meet its financial obligations.
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All member states must fulfil their obligations according to the EC treaty.
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The government failed to honour its obligations under the terms of the agreement.
roll of honour
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the roll of honour on the war memorial
single honours
swear on your honour (= promise very strongly )
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Do you swear on your honour that you will never tell anyone?
the guest of honour (= the most important guest )
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The senator was guest of honour at a reception held at the American Embassy.
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■ ADJECTIVE
dubious
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I therefore inherited the dubious honour of making it available on loan to youth workers.
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Snows Ride, a local thoroughfare, was in all probability named in his dubious honour .
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Mr Edmond has the dubious honour of being tried by the District of Columbia's first anonymous jury.
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Northampton Town's followers bestowed the well-meant, if dubious , honour on Graham Reed, a vigorous and gritty right-back.
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Both accepted what might have been regarded as a rather dubious honour .
great
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We consider it a great honour for all members of the band and bugles.
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It was a great honour to receive it from Trevor Sorbie and Anthony Mascolo.
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The higher the payment, the greater the honour to the bride.
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It's a great honour and I only hope and pray I won't let Monsieur down.
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But it's also a great honour and something that came about quite unexpectedly.
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It was considered a great honour not only for Eva, but Salvation Army work as a whole.
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It is a great honour for our waiters to take our guests their meals.
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It was a great honour dictating his copy.
high
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The highest civilian honour she can confer - the Order of Merit - is particularly featured.
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Make up your mind that whatever the short-term temptations may be, you will never deviate from the highest standards of honour .
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Avice Cam deserved the highest honour that could be given for service to others.
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Council leaders want to bestow the highest honour they can in recognition of Clough's achievements with Nottingham Forest.
national
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Something like their national honour was at stake.
personal
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In a traditional adventure story the pursuit of personal honour is drawn to an absolute conclusion.
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Later he had a sterner challenge to face, one which more closely affected his personal sense of honour .
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At the heart of these have been the institutions of church and family and a code of behaviour based on personal honour .
rare
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Rare honour: A 90-year-old churchgoer has been given a rare honour.
■ NOUN
guard
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In contrast Farc released a video showing its freed guerrillas saluting stiffly as they were greeted by an honour guard of rebels.
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bestow
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Council leaders want to bestow the highest honour they can in recognition of Clough's achievements with Nottingham Forest.
confer
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Poets confer honour neither on themselves nor on their work by using a sophisticated diction.
defend
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At least she died defending her honour .
give
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In May a lunch was given in honour of Emil Gilds.
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Eriksson should give the honour to Paul Scholes or Rio Ferdinand.
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The Führer has given to me the honour of organizing the conference and, of course, responsibility for his safety.
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It is right that they should be given a place of honour in the history of ancient art.
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Rare honour: A 90-year-old churchgoer has been given a rare honour.
hold
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The following year a centenary festival was held in honour of the listed building.
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The patroness of musicians and dancers, marvellous festivals were held in Bast's honour .
name
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It was named in honour of our departed hero.
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The lectures are named in his honour and organisers hope to attract big names in the future.
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The loco was named in honour of General Maude after her return from war service.
receive
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He hinted that she might even receive an honour from the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher if she gave her support.
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Mrs Hymes becomes the oldest woman ever to receive the honour .
win
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The town is only the second in the country to win the honour .
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Foulkes won practically every honour in the game as a defender in the Busby Babes team.
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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
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Privatisation used to be a badge of honour worn with pride by these Ministers.
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That, more a badge of honour.
a mark of respect/honour/affection etc
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As a mark of respect I did the same thing, followed by Tam and Richie.
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As a mark of respect, and in keeping with the tradition of the family, all the Denknetzeyans stayed at Le Richemond.
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Before entering it, a student must make a formal bow at the doorway as a mark of respect.
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He had expended himself so much for the people Eva made the long journey to his funeral as a mark of respect.
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However, he regarded it as a mark of respect and discipline, and old habits died hard.
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It is a mark of respect for those you intend to do business with.
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It seemed a mark of respect for the dead.
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The following day's race was cancelled as a mark of respect.
besmirch sb's honour/reputation
confer a title/degree/honour etc
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Poets confer honour neither on themselves nor on their work by using a sophisticated diction.
guard of honour
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Kerrison was still standing by the body, rigid as a guard of honour.
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There was a guard of honour for the Shah to inspect - more than one hundred troops.
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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)
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I therefore inherited the dubious honour of making it available on loan to youth workers.
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Mr Edmond has the dubious honour of being tried by the District of Columbia's first anonymous jury.
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Sarah, left alone, had the dubious distinction of being the last of all the Titfords in Frome.
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And what life may be worth when ... the honour is gone ... I can offer no opinion.
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But instead of honour the family found only grief.
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Des Collins, of the Royal Ontario Museum, doubts that it deserves quite such an honour .
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Guest of honour was Brigadier Garton who came up for the evening from his base at Catterick Garrison.
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In 472 this feast succeeded to the torchlight procession in honour of Persephone, and that of the Lupercalia.
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It was named in honour of our departed hero.
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John Ridd's sense of honour is practical as well as idealistic and his motives are relevant outside their historical context.
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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
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In effect, then, chapter 11 says it is better to keep a firm running than to honour debt agreements .
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Moreover, Gosteleradio claimed that Interfax had never honoured an agreement to remit 50 percent of its earnings to Radio Moscow.
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The orang caretakers asked Wartaputra to honour his agreement and refused to cooperate with the new plans.
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Of course I shall honour our agreement to the letter.
commitment
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I repeat clearly today that the Government will continue to honour their commitment to people in that category.
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Developing countries need environmentally sound technologies to honour their sustainability commitments under the Convention.
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They would have to honour their homework commitments and take part from time to time in residential field trips and work experience courses.
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Once again it did not honour its commitments , he says, thereby making a mockery of the Good Friday agreement.
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We hope that the factions will honour their commitment to a ceasefire in Mogadishu.
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It called on the Soviet Union to honour its international commitments .
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The Government did not honour this commitment when unemployment benefit became taxable in July 1982.
contract
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Lawrence has insisted he wants to stay and honour his contract at Middlesbrough and make them a force in the Premier division.
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The union's basic demand, that employers honour the breached contract , can be fudged.
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Trinity say that no extra cash is available and that Jackson must honour his existing contract .
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Saga says it tried to force the hotel to honour the contract , but it refused.
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To Blue's horror, however, the foreign companies decided to honour their original contracts .
memory
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Joyce has now learned to honour her father's memory and to see his worth.
pledge
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The Bishop says John Major should honour his pledge to raise the level of aid.
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Perhaps the time is coming when they will have to honour that pledge .
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Instead he should press Kennedy to honour Eisenhower's unwritten pledge to provide Polaris as an alternative to Skybolt.
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They have been undermined by the failure of governments to honour pledges to provide personnel and funds.
promise
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Thaksin needs a large amount of funds if he is to honour the populist promises that got him elected.
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The King was not called upon to honour his promise .
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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
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Privatisation used to be a badge of honour worn with pride by these Ministers.
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That, more a badge of honour.
a mark of respect/honour/affection etc
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As a mark of respect I did the same thing, followed by Tam and Richie.
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As a mark of respect, and in keeping with the tradition of the family, all the Denknetzeyans stayed at Le Richemond.
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Before entering it, a student must make a formal bow at the doorway as a mark of respect.
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He had expended himself so much for the people Eva made the long journey to his funeral as a mark of respect.
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However, he regarded it as a mark of respect and discipline, and old habits died hard.
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It is a mark of respect for those you intend to do business with.
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It seemed a mark of respect for the dead.
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The following day's race was cancelled as a mark of respect.
guard of honour
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Kerrison was still standing by the body, rigid as a guard of honour.
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There was a guard of honour for the Shah to inspect - more than one hundred troops.
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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)
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I therefore inherited the dubious honour of making it available on loan to youth workers.
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Mr Edmond has the dubious honour of being tried by the District of Columbia's first anonymous jury.
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Sarah, left alone, had the dubious distinction of being the last of all the Titfords in Frome.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a result, theories of the type proposed by Althusser and Poulantzas can not honour their own claims to completeness.
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Earlier this year Cardinal Glemp repudiated this agreement but he has now been prevailed upon to honour it.
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Going down now to a place where his certainties would finally be honoured.
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He says because my father died early in 1937 he's never been honoured for his work.
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It seems a strange way to honour such an amazing phenomenon.
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Pay scales either do not exist or are honoured mainly in the breach.
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Professor's research honoured at poly A Guisborough professor's research work has been honoured with a new post at Teesside Polytechnic.
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We hope that the factions will honour their commitment to a ceasefire in Mogadishu.