honor, honour, laurels (noun)

the state of being honored

award, accolade, honor, honour, laurels (noun)

a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction

"an award for bravery"

honor, honour (noun)

the quality of being honorable and having a good name

"a man of honor"

honor, honour, purity, pureness (verb)

a woman's virtue or chastity

honor, honour, reward (verb)

bestow honor or rewards upon

"Today we honor our soldiers"; "The scout was rewarded for courageous action"

respect, honor, honour, abide by, observe (verb)

show respect towards

"honor your parents!"

honor, honour (verb)

accept as pay

"we honor checks and drafts"

honour (Noun)

recognition of importance or spiritual value; respect

honour (Noun)

favourable reputation; dignity; sense of self-worth

honour (Noun)

An objectification of praiseworthiness or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as an award given by the state to a citizen.

honour (Noun)

A privilege.

honour (Noun)

The centre point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon; also honour point.

honour (Noun)

In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.

honour (Noun)

The right to play one's ball before one's opponent plays his.

honour (Noun)

For honours degree, a university qualification of the highest rank.

honour (Verb)

To think of highly, to respect highly, to recognise the importance or spiritual value of

honour (Verb)

To confer an honour or privilege upon (someone).

honour (Verb)

To conform with, obey (e.g. a treaty or promise)

honour (Verb)

To make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft etc).

Honour (ProperNoun)

A female given name from English, a less common spelling of Honor.

Honour

Honor or honour is an abstract concept entailing a perceived quality of worthiness and respectability that affects both the social standing and the self-evaluation of an individual or corporate body such as a family, school, regiment or nation. Accordingly, individuals are assigned worth and stature based on the harmony of their actions with a specific code of honour, and the moral code of the society at large. Honour can be viewed in the light of Psychological nativism as being as real to the human condition as love, and likewise deriving from the formative personal bonds that establish one's personal dignity and character. From the point of moral relativism, honour is perceived as arising from universal concerns for material circumstance and status, rather than fundamental differences in principle between those who hold different honour codes. Dr Samuel Johnson, in his A Dictionary of the English Language, defined honour as having several senses, the first of which was "nobility of soul, magnanimity, and a scorn of meanness." This sort of honour derives from the perceived virtuous conduct and personal integrity of the person endowed with it. On the other hand, Johnson also defined honour in relationship to "reputation" and "fame"; to "privileges of rank or birth", and as "respect" of the kind which "places an individual socially and determines his right to precedence." This sort of honour is not so much a function of moral or ethical excellence, as it is a consequence of power. Finally, with respect to women, honour has traditionally been associated with "chastity" or "virginity", or in case of a married woman, "fidelity". Some have argued that honour should be seen more as a rhetoric, or set of possible actions, than as a code.

Honour

Honour (British English) or honor (American English; see spelling differences) is the idea of a bond between an individual and a society as a quality of a person that is both of social teaching and of personal ethos, that manifests itself as a code of conduct, and has various elements such as valour, chivalry, honesty, and compassion. It is an abstract concept entailing a perceived quality of worthiness and respectability that affects both the social standing and the self-evaluation of an individual or institutions such as a family, school, regiment or nation. Accordingly, individuals (or institutions) are assigned worth and stature based on the harmony of their actions with a specific code of honour, and the moral code of the society at large. Samuel Johnson, in his A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), defined honour as having several senses, the first of which was "nobility of soul, magnanimity, and a scorn of meanness". This sort of honour derives from the perceived virtuous conduct and personal integrity of the person endowed with it. On the other hand, Johnson also defined honour in relationship to "reputation" and "fame"; to "privileges of rank or birth", and as "respect" of the kind which "places an individual socially and determines his right to precedence". This sort of honour is often not so much a function of moral or ethical excellence, as it is a consequence of power. Finally, with respect to sexuality, honour has traditionally been associated with (or identical to) "chastity" or "virginity", or in case of married men and women, "fidelity". Some have argued that honour should be seen more as a rhetoric, or set of possible actions, than as a code.