different between signalize vs honor

English

Etymology

From signal +? -ize.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??n?la?z/

Verb

signalize (third-person singular simple present signalizes, present participle signalizing, simple past and past participle signalized)

1. (transitive, now rare) To distinguish, to make noteworthy. [from 17th c.]
   • 1789, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life, Penguin 1990, p. 121:

     [T]he reign of the Tudors was often signalized by the valour of our soldiers and sailors […] .

   • 1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

     It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves.

2. (transitive, now rare) To display or make known (a quality, attribute etc.); to call attention to. [from 17th c.]
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 68:

     He likewise pretended to ridicule the use of fire-arms, which confounded all the distinctions of skill and address, and deprived a combatant of the opportunity of signalizing his personal prowess.

3. (transitive, now rare) To point out; to take special note of. [from 17th c.]
   • 1956, Winston Churchill, History of the English-Speaking Peoples, I.5:

     This expression rex Anglorum is rightly signalised by historians as a milestone in our history.

4. (transitive, chiefly nautical) To communicate with by means of a signal. [from 19th c.]

   a ship signalizes its consort

5. (transitive) To indicate; to be a sign of. [from 19th c.]
   • 1957, Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

     And yet... looking here at this bottle which by its number signalized the day when Colonel Freeleigh had stumbled and fallen six feet into the earth, Douglas could not find so much as a gram of dark sediment […]

6. (transitive, chiefly Canada, US) To furnish (a traffic intersection) with a traffic signal. [from 20th c.]

Derived terms

• signalization

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