 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
honor
noun
1: a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction; "an
award for bravery" [syn: {award}, {accolade}, {honour},
{laurels}]
2: the state of being honored [syn: {honour}, {laurels}] [ant:
{dishonor}]
3: the quality of being honorable and having a good name; "a
man of honor" [syn: {honour}] [ant: {dishonor}]
4: a woman's virtue or chastity [syn: {honour}, {purity}]
verb
1: bestow honor or rewards upon; "Today we honor our soldiers";
"The scout was rewarded for courageus action" [syn: {honour},
{reward}] [ant: {dishonor}]
2: show respect towards; "honor your parents!" [syn: {respect},
{honour}, {abide by}, {observe}] [ant: {disrespect}]
3: accept as pay; "we honor checks and drafts" [syn: {honour}]
[ant: {dishonor}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Honor \Hon"or\ ([o^]n"[~e]r), noun [OE. honor, honour, onour,
onur, OF. honor, onor, honur, onur, honour, onour, F.
honneur, fr. L. honor, honos.] [Written also {honour}.]
1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect;
consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of
respect or reverence.
A prophet is not without honor, save in his own
country. --Matt. xiii.
57.
2. That which rightfully attracts esteem, respect, or
consideration; self-respect; dignity; courage; fidelity;
especially, excellence of character; high moral worth;
virtue; nobleness; specif., in men, integrity;
uprightness; trustworthness; in women, purity; chastity.
If she have forgot
Honor and virtue. --Shak.
Godlike erect, with native honor clad. --Milton.
3. A nice sense of what is right, just, and true, with course
of life correspondent thereto; strict conformity to the
duty imposed by conscience, position, or privilege.
Say, what is honor? 'T is the finest sense
Of justice which the human mind can frame,
Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim,
And guard the way of life from all offense
Suffered or done. --Wordsworth.
I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more. --Lovelace.
4. That to which esteem or consideration is paid;
distinguished position; high rank. ''Restored me to my
honors.'' --Shak.
I have given thee . . . both riches, and honor. --1
Kings iii. 13.
Thou art clothed with honor and majesty. --Ps. civ.
1.
5. Fame; reputation; credit.
Some in theiractions do woo, and affect honor and
reputation. --Bacon.
If my honor is meant anything distinct from
conscience, 't is no more than a regard to the
censure and esteem of the world. --Rogers.
6. A token of esteem paid to worth; a mark of respect; a
ceremonial sign of consideration; as, he wore an honor on
his breast; military honors; civil honors. ''Their funeral
honors.'' --Dryden.
7. A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an
ornament; as, he is an honor to his nation.
8. A title applied to the holders of certain honorable civil
offices, or to persons of rank; as, His Honor the Mayor.
See Note under {Honorable}.
9. (Feud. Law) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on
which other lordships and manors depended. --Cowell.
10. pl. Academic or university prizes or distinctions; as,
honors in classics.
11. pl. (Whist) The ace, king, queen, and jack of trumps. The
ten and nine are sometimes called Dutch honors. --R. A.
Proctor.
{Affair of honor}, a dispute to be decided by a duel, or the
duel itself.
{Court of honor}, a court or tribunal to investigate and
decide questions relating to points of honor; as a court
of chivalry, or a military court to investigate acts or
omissions which are unofficerlike or ungentlemanly in
their nature.
{Debt of honor}, a debt contracted by a verbal promise, or by
betting or gambling, considered more binding than if
recoverable by law.
{Honor bright!} An assurance of truth or fidelity. [Colloq.]
{Honor court} (Feudal Law), one held in an honor or seignory.
{Honor point}. (Her.) See {Escutcheon}.
{Honors of war} (Mil.), distinctions granted to a vanquished
enemy, as of marching out from a camp or town armed, and
with colors flying.
{Law of honor} or {Code of honor}, certain rules by which
social intercourse is regulated among persons of fashion,
and which are founded on a regard to reputation. --Paley.
{Maid of honor}, a lady of rank, whose duty it is to attend
the queen when she appears in public.
{On one's honor}, on the pledge of one's honor; as, the
members of the House of Lords in Great Britain, are not
under oath, but give their statements or verdicts on their
honor.
{Point of honor}, a scruple or nice distinction in matters
affecting one's honor; as, he raised a point of honor.
{To do the honors}, to bestow honor, as on a guest; to act as
host or hostess at an entertainment. ''To do the honors
and to give the word.'' --Pope.
{To do one honor}, to confer distinction upon one.
{To have the honor}, to have the privilege or distinction.
{Word of honor}, an engagement confirmed by a pledge of
honor.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Honor \Hon"or\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Honored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Honoring}.] [OE. honouren, onouren, OF. honorer, honourer,
F. honorer, fr. L. honorare, fr. honor, noun]
1. To regard or treat with honor, esteem, or respect; to
revere; to treat with deference and submission; when used
of the Supreme Being, to reverence; to adore; to worship.
Honor thy father and thy mother. --Ex. xx. 12.
That all men should honor the Son, even as they
honor the Father. --John v. 23.
It is a custom
More honor'd in the breach than the observance.
--Shak.
2. To dignify; to raise to distinction or notice; to bestow
honor upon; to elevate in rank or station; to ennoble; to
exalt; to glorify; hence, to do something to honor; to
treat in a complimentary manner or with civility.
Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king
delighten to honor. --Esther vi.
9.
The name of Cassius honors this corruption. --Shak.
3. (Com.) To accept and pay when due; as, to honora bill of
exchange.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
337 Moby Thesaurus words for "honor":
abide by, accept, acclaim, accolade, accord respect to, account,
accounting for, acknowledgment, acres, adhere to, administer,
admiration, admire, adoration, adore, adorn, adulate, adulation,
aggrandize, amortize, answerability, apotheosis, apotheosize,
application, appreciate, appreciation, approbation, approval,
approve, arrogation, ascription, assignation, assignment,
assured probity, attachment, attribution, audition, award, awe,
badge, bays, beat the drum, bepraisement, bestow honor upon, blame,
blamelessness, blessing, blotlessness, blow the trumpet, blue book,
breathless adoration, carry out, carry through, cash, celebrate,
celebrity, character, charge, chastity, chattels real, cite,
cleanliness, cleanness, clear, commemorate, complete, compliment,
confer distinction on, congratulation, connection with,
consideration, courtesy, credit, crown, crown with laurel, decency,
decorate, decoration, defer to, deference, deification, deify,
delight, demesne, derivation from, devotion, dignify, dignity,
discharge, distinction, distinguish, do honor, do service, domain,
dress ship, duty, effect, effectuate, eloge, eminence, encomium,
enforce, ennoble, entertain respect for, erect, erectness, esteem,
estimableness, estimation, etiology, eulogium, eulogize, eulogy,
exaggerated respect, exalt, exaltation, exam, examen, examination,
excessive praise, execute, fairness, fame, favor, fill out, final,
final examination, fire a salute, flattery, fulfill, glorification,
glorify, glory, good character, goodness, grace, great go,
great respect, greatness, grounds, hail, hallow, handle, hearing,
hero worship, hero-worship, high ideals, high principles,
high regard, high-mindedness, hold in esteem, hold in reverence,
hold jubilee, homage, hommage, honesty, honorableness, honorific,
honors, idolatry, idolization, idolize, idolizing, illustriousness,
immaculacy, immaculateness, implement, imputation, incorruption,
innocence, integrity, irreproachability, irreproachableness, joy,
jubilate, jubilize, justice, justness, keep, kudos, land,
landed property, lands, laud, laudation, laurels, lift, lionizing,
liquidate, live up to, look up to, lot, lots, maffick,
magnification, magnify, maintain, make, make accounts square,
make merry, make out, manor, mark, meed of praise, meet,
memorability, memorialize, messuage, midsemester, midterm,
moral excellence, moral strength, morality, nobility, notability,
noteworthiness, obeisance, observe, oral, oral examination,
overpraise, paean, palaetiology, panegyric, parcel, pay,
pay homage to, pay in full, pay off, pay regard to, pay the bill,
pay the shot, pay tribute, pay up, placement, plat, pleasure, plot,
praedium, praise, prelim, prestige, principles, privilege, prize,
probity, prominence, promulgate, property, prosecute, pureness,
purity, put in force, put through, quadrat, quiz, real estate,
real property, realty, recognition, rectitude, redeem,
reference to, regard, remarkableness, render, render honor to,
renown, reputability, reputation, repute, respect, respectability,
responsibility, retire, revere, reverence, reverential regard,
righteousness, saddling, salience, salute, satisfy, settle,
sexual innocence, signalize, snowiness, solemnize, solemnly mark,
sound a fanfare, spotlessness, square, square accounts,
stainlessness, strike a balance, sublime, taintlessness, take up,
take-home examination, tenements, test, think highly of,
think much of, think well of, title, toft, transact, trial,
tribute, tripos, unblemishedness, unblottedness, uncorruptness,
undefiledness, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness, unsoiledness,
unspottedness, unstainedness, unsulliedness, untaintedness, uprear,
uprightness, upstandingness, value, venerate, veneration,
virginity, virtue, virtuousness, viva, whiteness, worship, worth,
worthiness, written, written examination
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Honor, MI (village, FIPS 39080)
Location: 44.66678 N, 86.02019 W
Population (1990): 292 (142 housing units)
Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 49640
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Honor, MI -- U.S. village in Michigan
Population (2000): 299
Housing Units (2000): 153
Land area (2000): 0.550506 sq. miles (1.425803 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.550506 sq. miles (1.425803 sq. km)
FIPS code: 39080
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 44.665567 N, 86.022118 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 49640
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Honor, MI
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