different between promotion vs honour

English

Etymology

From Old French promocion, from Latin promotio.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???mo???n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???m????n/
• Rhymes: -????n
• Hyphenation: pro?mo?tion

Noun

promotion (countable and uncountable, plural promotions)

1. An advancement in rank or position.

   Antonym: demotion

2. Dissemination of information in order to increase its popularity.

   the promotion of the idea of global warming in schools

3. (marketing) An event intended to increase the reach or image of a product or brand.

4. (zoology, chiefly entomology) Forward motion. (Contrast remotion.)
   • 1995, Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology ?ISBN, page 63:

     By simple promotion and remotion, assisted by some flexure and extension, the distal spines of each would reach and scratch the substratum and, on remotion, sweep coarse particles posteriorly and dorsally.

   • 2008, John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology ?ISBN, volume 4, page 3326:

     In other arthropods, promotion-remotion of the leg is accomplished at other joints. For example, in spiders promotion-remotion occurs at the coxa-trochanter joint, insects utilize the body-coxa joint, and […]

Derived terms

• promotional

Related terms

Translations

French

Alternative forms

• promo (advertising; discount; year group)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?m?ti?, from pr?move? (whence French promouvoir).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.m?.sj??/

Noun

promotion f (plural promotions)

1. promotion (career advancement)
2. promotion, advertising

3. special offer, discount, special, sale

   Synonym: promo

4. school year, year group

   Synonym: promo

Derived terms

• promotion canapé
• promotionnel

Further reading

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

English

Alternative forms

• honor (American)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?(?)/

Noun

honour (countable and uncountable, plural honours)

1. British spelling, Canadian spelling, South African spelling, Commonwealth of Nations, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
   • 1902, Richard Francis Weymouth, Translation of the New Testament of the Bible, Book 60, 1 Peter 2:4:

     Come to Him, the ever-living Stone, rejected indeed by men as worthless, but in God's esteem chosen and held in honour.

Antonyms

• dishonour

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

honour (third-person singular simple present honours, present participle honouring, simple past and past participle honoured)

1. British spelling, Canadian spelling, Commonwealth of Nations, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.

Derived terms

• honour in the breach

Translations

Middle English

Etymology

Anglo-Norman honour.

Noun

honour (plural honours)

1. honour

Descendants

• English: honour, honor

References

p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.

Old French

Noun

honour m (oblique plural honours, nominative singular honours, nominative plural honour)

1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of honur

   […] prierent au roi qe mesme le cont purroit estre restorez a ses noun et honour de marquys queux il avoit pardevant.

   […] prayed to the king that even the count could be restored to his name and his honour of marquee that he had before