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honorable
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)
- Worthy of respect; respectable.
- (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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.
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faithful
English
Alternative forms
- faithfull (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English feithful, equivalent to faith +? -ful.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fe??.f?l/
Adjective
faithful (comparative faithfuler or more faithful, superlative faithfulest or most faithful)
- Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
- Having faith.
- 2009, Paul Lakeland, Church: Living Communion (page 162)
- The application of the old discipline, say the conservatives, would probably produce a smaller but more faithful Church.
- 2009, Paul Lakeland, Church: Living Communion (page 162)
- Reliable; worthy of trust.
- Consistent with reality.
- Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
- 1976, "Missouri Breakers"[1]
- She wanted to be free to explore casual affairs, but her man had to be faithful .
- 1976, "Missouri Breakers"[1]
- (mathematics) Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.
Derived terms
- faithfully
- faithfulness
Translations
See also
- go to the wall for someone
- stand by
- true
Noun
faithful (plural faithfuls)
- (in the plural) The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.
- Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.
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