Definición de "honour"
Formas de la palabra: plural, 3rd person singular present tense honours
, present participle honouring
, past tense, past participle honoured
regional note: in AM, use honor
1. sustantivo incontable
2. sustantivo contable
3. verbo [usually passive]
If someone is honoured, they are given public praise or an award for something they have done.
4. sustantivo singular
5. verbo pasivo
7. verbo
Mr Ashkenazy has informed us that he will be unable to honour his contract with Symphony
Hall to perform the piano recital. [VERB noun]
8. sustantivo incontable [usually NOUN noun]
9. sustantivo contable
10. See also guest of honour, lap of honour, maid of honour
11.
See do the honours
12.
See in honour of
13.
See in sb's honour
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Frecuencia de uso de la palabra
honour in British English
sustantivo
1.
7.
b. whist
any of the top four cards
9. See do honour to
11. See honour bright
12. See in honour bound
13. See in honour of
14. See on one's honour
verbo (transitive)
15.
to hold in respect or esteem
16.
to show courteous behaviour towards
17.
to worship
18.
to confer a distinction upon
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Formas derivadas
honourer (ˈhonourer) or US honorer (ˈhonorer) sustantivo
honourless (ˈhonourless) or US honorless (ˈhonorless)
adjetivo
Origen de la palabra honour
C12: from Old French onor, from Latin honor esteem
Frecuencia de uso de la palabra
honour in American English
sustantivo, verbo transitivo, adjetivo
British
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
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Inglés británico: honour
/ˈɒnə/ NOUN
Honour means doing what you believe to be right and being confident that you have done what is right.
I do not believe I can any longer serve with honour as a member of your government.
- Inglés americano: honor /ˈɒnər/
- Árabe: شَرَف
- Portugués brasileño: honra
- Chino: 荣誉
- Croata: čast
- Checo: čest
- Danés: ære
- Holandés: eer
- Español europeo: honor
- Finlandés: kunnia arvo
- Francés: honneur
- Alemán: Ehre
- Griego: τιμή υπόληψη
- Italiano: onore
- Japonés: 道義心
- Coreano: 명예
- Noruego: ære
- Polaco: honor
- Portugués: honra
- Rumano: onoare
- Ruso: честь
- Español: honor
- Sueco: ära
- Tailandés: เกียรติยศ
- Turco: onur şeref
- Ucraniano: честь
- Vietnamita: danh dự
Inglés británico: honour
VERB /ˈɒnə/
If someone is honoured, they are given public praise or an award for something they have done.
Two surgeons were last week honoured with the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology.
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