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English

Alternative forms

• honour (British, Commonwealth, Irish)

Etymology

From Middle English honour, honor, honur, from Anglo-Norman honour, honur, from Old French honor, from Latin honor.

Displaced Middle English menske (“honor, dignity among men”), from Old Norse menskr (“honor”) (see mensk).

The verb is from Middle English honouren, honuren (“to honor”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??n.?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n.?/
• Rhymes: -?n?(?)

Noun

honor (countable and uncountable, plural honors) (chiefly American spelling)

1. (uncountable) recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful)

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

2. (uncountable) the state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity

3. (countable) a token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen

   • their funeral honours

4. a privilege

5. (in the plural) the privilege of going first
   1. (golf) the right to play one's ball before one's opponent.
6. a cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.

7. (feudal law) a seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended

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8. (heraldry, countable) the center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon (compare honour point)
9. (countable, card games) In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.
10. (in the plural) (courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank

Usage notes

Like many other words ending in -our/-or, this word is usually spelled honour in the UK and honor in the US. However, the spelling honour is considered more formal in the United States, and is standard in formulations such as "the honour of your presence" as used on wedding invitations and other very formal documents.

Synonyms

• chivalry
• glory
• gentlemanliness

Antonyms

• dishonor

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

honor (third-person singular simple present honors, present participle honoring, simple past and past participle honored) (chiefly US)

1. (transitive) to think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of

2. (transitive) to conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like)

3. (transitive) to confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone)

4. (transitive) to make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft, etc.)

Synonyms

• worthy (verb)

Antonyms

• despise
• contempt

Derived terms

• dishonor, dishonour

Translations

References

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan onor, from Latin hon?rem, accusative of honor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o?no/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u?nor/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o?no?/

Noun

honor m (plural honors)

1. honour

   Antonym: deshonor

Derived terms

• deshonor

Related terms

• honorable
• honorari
• honorífic
• honrar
• seat of honor

Further reading

• “honor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “honor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “honor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “honor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Alternative forms

• honos (ante-classical)

Etymology

From Old Latin honos, a form notably still used by Cicero, of unknown origin; possibly from a Proto-Indo-European root *g?on- or *??on-, but lacking any clear cognates.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ho.nor/, [?h?n?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?o.nor/, [???n?r]

Noun

honor m (genitive hon?ris); third declension

1. honor, esteem, dignity, reputation, office

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• honor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• honor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• honor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• honor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• honor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• honor in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)?^[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN

Old French

Alternative forms

• anor, enor, honnor, honur, onor, onur

Etymology

From Latin honor, hon?rem.

Noun

honor m (oblique plural honors, nominative singular honors, nominative plural honor)

1. honor; honour

Descendants

• ? English: honor, honour
• Middle French: honneur
  • French: honneur
• ? Middle Irish: onóir, anóir
  • Irish: onóir
  • Scottish Gaelic: onoir

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin honor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?x?.n?r/

Noun

honor m inan

1. honour, honor (praiseworthiness, respect)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish onor, from Latin honor, hon?rem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?no?/, [o?no?]

Noun

honor m (plural honores)

1. honor

Derived terms

Related terms

• honorable
• honrar
• honra
• honrilla

Further reading

• “honor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Anagrams

• honro, honró, horno

Swedish

Noun

honor

1. indefinite plural of hona

English

Alternative forms

• æquity (archaic, poetic)
• equitie (archaic)

Etymology

Attested in 14th century; from the 13th century Old French equite, from Latin aequitas (“uniformity; impartiality; fairness”). Doublet of equality.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??k.w?.ti/

Noun

equity (countable and uncountable, plural equities)

1. Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right".
2. (law) Various related senses originating with the Court of Chancery in late Medieval England
   1. (law) The power of a court of law having extra-statutory discretion, to decide legal matters and to provide legal relief apart from, though not in violation of, the prevailing legal code; in some cases, a court "sitting in equity" may provide relief to a complainant should the code be found either inapplicable or insufficient to do so.
      • 1800, Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon in Mayor, &c. of Southampton v. Graves (1800), 8 T. R. 592.

        A Court of equity knows its own province.

      • 1851, Edward Sugden, 1st Baron St Leonards in Birch v. Joy (1851), 3 H. L. C. 598:

        "A Court of equity interposes only according to conscience."

      • 1848-55, Thomas Babington Macaulay, History of England, Chapter IX:

        Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application.

   2. (law) A right which accrues to a party in a transaction because of the nature of the transaction itself, and which is exercisable upon a change of circumstances or conditions; in other words, an equitable claim.
      • 1999, In Re Fitzgerald, 237 B.R. 252, 261 (Bkrtcy. D.Conn. 1999):

        "...the mortgagor retains ‘equitable title’ or the ‘equity of redemption’….The equity of redemption permits the mortgagor to regain legal title to the mortgaged property upon satisfying the conditions of the mortgage..."

      • 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law

        The wife's equity does not, according to the adjudged cases, attach, except upon that part of her personal property in action which the husband cannot acquire without the assistance of a court of equity

   3. (law, England) The body of law which was developed in the English Court of Chancery, which Court had extra-statutory discretion, and is now administered alongside the common law of Britain.
3. (finance) Various senses related to net value
   1. (law, finance) Value of property minus liens or other encumbrances.

   2. (business) Ownership, especially in terms of net monetary value of some business.
   3. (accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from assets.
   4. (poker) A player's expected share of the pot.
4. (nonstandard) Equality

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “equity”, in Online Etymology Dictionary