different between honorable vs eminent

English

Alternative forms

• honble (obsolete)
• Honorable (honorific)
• (British spelling:) honourable, Honourable (honorific)

Etymology

From Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin hon?r?bilis, from hon?r? (“I honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. Surface analysis is honor +? -able.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?n??r?bl, ?n?r?bl, IPA^(key): /??n???bl?/, /??n??bl?/
• (General American) enPR: ?n??r?bl, ?n?r?bl, IPA^(key): /??n???bl?/, /??n??bl?/
• Hyphenation: hon?or?able, honor?able

Adjective

honorable (comparative more honorable, superlative most honorable) (American spelling)

1. Worthy of respect; respectable.
2. (politics) A courtesy title, given in Britain and the Commonwealth to a cabinet minister, minister of state, or senator, and in the United States to the president, vice president, congresspeople, state governors and legislators, and mayors.

Synonyms

• venerable
• noble
• Hon'ble
• Hon.

Antonyms

• despicable
• contemptible
• mean

Derived terms

• Hon., Hon'ble, Honourable
• honorably, honourably
• (politics): right honorable, right honourable

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin hon?r?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o.no??a.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u.nu??a.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o.no??a.ble/

Adjective

honorable (masculine and feminine plural honorables)

1. honorable

Derived terms

• honorablement

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

From Old French [Term?], borrowed from Latin hon?r?bilis.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /?.n?.?abl/

Adjective

honorable (plural honorables)

1. honorable

Derived terms

• faire amende honorable
• hon.
• très honorable

Related terms

• honneur

Further reading

• “honorable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Alternative forms

• honorábel

Etymology

From Latin hon?r?bilis.

Adjective

honorable m or f (plural honorables)

1. honorable

Related terms

• honor
• honra

Further reading

• “honorable” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hon?r?bilis. Equivalent to honor +? -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ono??able/, [o.no??a.??le]

Adjective

honorable (plural honorables)

1. honorable

   Synonym: honesto

Derived terms

• honorablemente

Related terms

• honor
• honra
• honrar

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Middle French éminent, from Latin present participle ?min?ns, ?minentis, from verb ?mine? (“I project, I protrude”), from ex- (“out of, from”) + mine?, related to mons (English mount). Compare with imminent. Unrelated to emanate, which is instead from m?n? (“I flow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?n?nt/

Adjective

eminent (comparative more eminent, superlative most eminent)

1. (archaic) high, lofty.

   Synonyms: towering, prominent; see also Thesaurus:tall

2. noteworthy, remarkable, great.

   Synonyms: remarkable, outstanding; see also Thesaurus:notable

3. (of a person) distinguished, important, noteworthy.

   Synonyms: distinguished, noteworthy; see also Thesaurus:notable

Usage notes

Eminent and imminent are very similar sounds, and are weak rhymes; in some dialects, these may be confused. A typo of either word may result in a correction to the wrong word by spellchecking software. Eminent may also be confused with immanent, immanant, or emanate.

Derived terms

• eminence
• eminent domain
• eminently
• preeminent

Related terms

• imminent
• prominent

Translations

Further reading

• eminent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• eminent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• eminent at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• T'ien-men, T'ien-mên, tinemen

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ?min?ns.

Adjective

eminent (masculine and feminine plural eminents)

1. eminent

Derived terms

• eminentment

Related terms

• eminència

Further reading

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

German

Etymology

From French éminent, from Latin eminens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [emi?n?nt]
• Hyphenation: emi?nent

Adjective

eminent (comparative eminenter, superlative am eminentesten)

1. eminent

Declension

Further reading

• “eminent” in Duden online

Latin

Verb

?minent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of ?mine?

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

eminent (indefinite singular eminent, definite singular and plural eminente)

1. eminent

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

eminent (indefinite singular eminent, definite singular and plural eminente)

1. eminent

Romanian

Etymology

From French éminent, from Latin eminens.

Adjective

eminent m or n (feminine singular eminent?, masculine plural eminen?i, feminine and neuter plural eminente)

1. notable

Declension