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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction;
- Example: "an award for bravery"
[syn: award, accolade, honor, honour, laurels]

2. the state of being honored;
[syn: honor, honour, laurels]

3. the quality of being honorable and having a good name;
- Example: "a man of honor"
[syn: honor, honour]

4. a woman's virtue or chastity;
[syn: honor, honour, purity, pureness]


VERB (3)

1. bestow honor or rewards upon;
- Example: "Today we honor our soldiers"
- Example: "The scout was rewarded for courageous action"
[syn: honor, honour, reward]

2. show respect towards;
- Example: "honor your parents!"
[syn: respect, honor, honour, abide by, observe]

3. accept as pay;
- Example: "we honor checks and drafts"
[syn: honor, honour]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Honor \Hon"or\ ([o^]n"[~e]r), n. [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. [1913 Webster] A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. --Matt. xiii. 57. [1913 Webster] 2. That which rightfully attracts esteem, respect, or consideration; self-respect; dignity; courage; fidelity; especially, excellence of character; high moral worth; virtue; nobleness. [1913 Webster] Godlike erect, with native honor clad. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. Purity; chastity; -- a term applied mostly to women, but becoming uncommon in usage. [1913 Webster + PJC] If she have forgot Honor and virtue. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. 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; integrity; uprightness; trustworthness. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more. --Lovelace. [1913 Webster] 5. That to which esteem or consideration is paid; distinguished position; high rank. "Restored me to my honors." --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have given thee . . . both riches, and honor. --1 Kings iii. 13. [1913 Webster] Thou art clothed with honor and majesty. --Ps. civ. 1. [1913 Webster] 6. Fame; reputation; credit. [1913 Webster] Some in their actions do woo, and affect honor and reputation. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 7. 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. [1913 Webster] 8. A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament; as, he is an honor to his nation. [1913 Webster] 9. 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. [1913 Webster] 10. (Feud. Law) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended. --Cowell. [1913 Webster] 11. pl. Academic or university prizes or distinctions; as, honors in classics. [1913 Webster] 12. pl. (Whist) The ace, king, queen, and jack of trumps. The ten and nine are sometimes called Dutch honors. --R. A. Proctor. [1913 Webster] 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) a lady of rank, whose duty it is to attend the queen when she appears in public. (b) the bride's principle attendant at a wedding, if unmarried. If married, she is referred to as the matron of honor. 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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Honor \Hon"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Honored ([o^]n"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Honoring.] [OE. honouren, onouren, OF. honorer, honourer, F. honorer, fr. L. honorare, fr. honor, n.] 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. [1913 Webster] Honor thy father and thy mother. --Ex. xx. 12. [1913 Webster] That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. --John v. 23. [1913 Webster] It is a custom More honor'd in the breach than the observance. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighten to honor. --Esther vi. 9. [1913 Webster] The name of Cassius honors this corruption. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. (Com.) To accept and pay when due; as, to honora bill of exchange. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

honor n 1: a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction; "an award for bravery" [syn: award, accolade, honor, honour, laurels] 2: the state of being honored [syn: honor, honour, laurels] [ant: dishonor, dishonour] 3: the quality of being honorable and having a good name; "a man of honor" [syn: honor, honour] [ant: dishonor, dishonour] 4: a woman's virtue or chastity [syn: honor, honour, purity, pureness] v 1: bestow honor or rewards upon; "Today we honor our soldiers"; "The scout was rewarded for courageous action" [syn: honor, honour, reward] [ant: attaint, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, shame] 2: show respect towards; "honor your parents!" [syn: respect, honor, honour, abide by, observe] [ant: disrespect] 3: accept as pay; "we honor checks and drafts" [syn: honor, honour] [ant: dishonor, dishonour]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

HONOR. High estimation. A testimony of high estimation. Dignity. Reputation. Dignified respect of character springing from probity, principle, or moral rectitude. A duel is not justified by any insult to our honor. Honor is also employed to signify integrity in a judge, courage in a soldier, and chastity in a woman. To deprive a woman of her honor is, in some cases, punished as a public wrong, and by an action for the recovery of damages done to the relative rights of a husband or a father. Vide Criminal conversation. 2. In England, when a peer of parliament is sitting judicially in that body, his pledge of honor is received instead of an oath; and in courts of equity, peers, peeresses, and lords of parliament, answer on their honor only. But the courts of common law know no such distinction. It is needless to add, that as we are not encumbered by a nobility, there is no such distinction in the United States, all persons being equal in the eye of the law.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

HONOR, Eng. law. The seigniory of a lord paramount. 2 Bl. Com. 9f.
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

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 Honor