Accolade vs Honour - What's the difference?
accolade | honour |
An expression of approval; praise.
A special acknowledgment; an award.
An embrace of greeting or salutation.
(historical) A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword.
(music) A brace used to join two or more staves.
(US, military) Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by personnel who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of wounds received in Korea between June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954. Service of civilians who died overseas or as a result of injury or disease contracted while serving in a civilian capacity with the United States Armed Forces during the dates and/or in areas prescribed is in like manner recognized.
accolade
To embrace or kiss in salutation.
(historical) To confer a knighthood on.
To confer praise or awards on.
* 1902 , Richard Francis Weymouth, Translation of the New Testament of the Bible , Book 60, 1 Peter 2:4:
* (rfdate), Shakespeare:
* (rfdate), Milton:
As a noun accolade
is an expression of approval; praise.As a verb accolade
is to embrace or kiss in salutation.As a proper noun honour is
, a less common spelling of honor.accolade
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (expression of approval or praise) panegyricReferences
* (4) http://www.afms1.belvoir.army.mil/dictionary/a.htmVerb
(accolad)- an accoladed novel
honour
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Noun
- Come to Him, the ever-living Stone, rejected indeed by men as worthless, but in God's esteem chosen and held in honour .
- If she have forgot / Honour and virtue.
- Godlike erect, with native honour clad.