honoured

English

Alternative forms

honored (American)
honor'd, honour'd (archaic)

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑnɚd/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒnəd/
Audio (US) (file)
Hyphenation: hon‧oured

Adjective

honoured (comparative more honoured, superlative most honoured)

(British spelling) Respected, having received honour.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 229e.
  One of them is the time-honoured method of our forefathers

Derived terms

time-honoured

Translations

respected, having received honour

Chinese:
Mandarin: 榮幸／荣幸 (zh) (róngxìng)
Faroese: æruríkur
Finnish: kunnioitettu (fi); kunnioittama (respected by); kunnioitettava (fi), kunnianarvoinen, arvoisa (fi)
French: honoré (fr)
German: geehrt (de)
Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌴𐍂𐍃 (swērs)
Greek:
Ancient: ἔντιμος (éntimos)
Irish: clúiteach
Japanese: 光栄に思って (ja) (こうえいにおもって, kōei ni omotte)
Latin: honorātus
Maori: taiea, hōnore
Portuguese: honrado (pt) m
Russian: уважа́емый (ru) (uvažájemyj), заслу́женный (ru) (zaslúžennyj)

Verb

honoured

(British spelling) simple past tense and past participle of honour

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