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(uncountable) Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright and/or competent).
* The King James Bible, Matthew 13.57:
(uncountable) The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity.
(countable) A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen.
* (rfdate), Dryden:
A privilege.
(in the plural) The privilege of going first.
# (golf) The right to play one's ball before one's opponent.
A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
(feudal law) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.
(heraldry, countable) The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon.
(countable, card games) In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.
(in the plural) (Courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank.
To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of.
To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like).
To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone).
To make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft etc).
A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica , cultivated in temperate climates.
* c. 1378 , (William Langland), Piers Plowman :
* 1815 , (Jane Austen), Emma :
* 2013 , John Vallins, The Guardian , 28 Oct 2013:
Any of various tree-borne fruits or vegetables especially considered as resembling an apple; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of other specific fruits such as (custard apple), (thorn apple) etc.
* 1658 , trans. Giambattista della Porta, Natural Magick , I.16:
* 1784 , (James Cook), A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean , II:
* 1825 , Theodric Romeyn Beck, Elements of Medical Jurisprudence , 2nd edition, p. 565:
The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.
* 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , Book X:
* 1985 , (Barry Reckord), The White Witch :
A tree of the genus Malus , especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
* 1913 , John Weathers, Commercial Gardening , p. 38:
* 2000 PA Thomas, Trees: Their Natural History , p. 227:
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* 2012 , Terri Reid, The Everything Guide to Living Off the Grid , p. 77:
The wood of the apple tree.
(in the plural, Cockney rhyming slang) Short for apples and pears , slang for stairs.
(baseball, slang, obsolete) The ball in baseball.
(informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.
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English
(wikipedia honor)Alternative forms
* honourNoun
- The crowds gave the returning general much honor and praise.
- A prophet is not without honour , save in his own country.
- He was a most perfect knight, for he had great honor and chivalry.
- His honor was unstained.
- Honors are normally awarded twice a year: on The Queen's Birthday in June and at the New Year.
- He wore an honor on his breast.
- military honors'''; civil '''honors
- Audie Murphy received many honors , such as the Distinguished Service Cross.
- their funeral honors
- I had the honour of dining with the ambassador.
- I'll let you have the honours , Bob—go ahead.
- He is an honour to his nation.
- (Cowell)
- At university I took honours in modern history.
Synonyms
* chivalry * glory * gentlemanlinessDerived terms
* debt of honour, debt of honor * dishonour, dishonor * dishonourable, dishonorable * honourable, honorable * honourary, honorary * honour code, honor code * honourific, honorific * honour guard, honor guard * honour system, honor system * honours degree, honors degree * Hons * in honour of, in honor ofVerb
(en verb)- The freedom fighters will be forever remembered and honored by the people.
- I trusted you, but you have not honored your promise.
- refuse to honor the test ban treaty
- Ten members of the profession were honored at the ceremony.
- The prince honored me with an invitation to his birthday banquet.
- I'm sorry Sir, but the bank did not honour your cheque.
Synonyms
* (l) (verb)Antonyms
* despise * contemptDerived terms
* dishonor, dishonourapple
English
(wikipedia apple)Alternative forms
* apl (Jamaican English)Noun
(en noun)- I prayed pieres to pulle adown an apple .
- Not that I had any doubt before – I have so often heard Mr. Woodhouse recommend a baked apple .
- Close by and under cover, I watched the juicing process. Apples were washed, then tipped, stalks and all, into the crusher and reduced to pulp.
- In Persia there grows a deadly tree, whose Apples are Poison, and present death.
- Otaheite […] is remarkable for producing great quantities of that delicious fruit we called apples , which are found in none of the others, except Eimeo.
- Hippomane mancinella. (Manchineel-tree.) Dr. Peysonnel relates that a soldier, who was a slave with the Turks, eat some of the apples of this tree, and was soon seized with a swelling and pain of the abdomen.
- Him by fraud I have seduced / From his Creator; and, the more to encrease / Your wonder, with an apple […].
- Woman ate the apple , and discovered sex, and lost all shame, and lift up her fig—leaf, and she must suffer the pains of hell. Monthly.
- If the grafted portion of an Apple or other tree were examined after one hundred years, the old cut surfaces would still be present, for mature or ripened wood, being dead, never unites.
- This allows a weak plant to benefit from the strong roots of another, or a vigorous tree (such as an apple ) to be kept small by growing on 'dwarfing rootstock'.
- Other fruit trees, like apples , need well-drained soil.