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Honorific vs Title - What's the difference?

honorific | title |

As nouns the difference between honorific and title

is that honorific is a title. (i.e., Mister, Misses, Doctor, Professor while title is a prefix (honorific) or suffix (post-nominal) added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification. See also :Category:Titles.

As an adjective honorific

is showing or conferring honour and respect.

As a verb title is

to assign a title to; to entitle.

honorific

English

(wikipedia honorific)

Alternative forms

* honorifick (qualifier) * honourific

Noun

(en noun)
  • A title. (i.e., Mister, Misses, Doctor, Professor )
  • A term of respect; respectful language.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing or conferring honour and respect.
  • * 1996 , T. P. Wiseman, “The Minucii and Their Monument”, in Jerzy Linderski (editor), Imperium Sine Fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic , Franz Steiner Verlag, ISBN 978-3-515-06948-9, page 59:
    • According to Pliny, the custom of setting up honorific statues on columns was a comparably ancient one.
  • Based on or valuing honor
  • * 2010 , Orlando Patterson, “The mechanisms of cultural reproduction: explaining the puzzle of persistence”, in John R. Hall et al. (editors), Handbook of Cultural Sociology , Taylor & Francis, ISBN 978-0-415-47445-0, page 143:
    • In the honorific cultural process, individuals (especially men) are extremely sensitive to real or perceived insults, and

    Derived terms

    * honorifically

    title

    English

    (wikipedia title)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A prefix (honorific) or suffix (post-nominal) added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification. See also
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • With his former title greet Macbeth.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.}}
  • (legal) Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.
  • In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.
  • A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
  • The name of a book, film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art.
  • A publication.
  • A section or division of a subject, as of a law or a book.
  • (mostly, in the plural) A written title, credit, or caption shown with a film, video, or performance.
  • (bookbinding) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.
  • The subject of a writing; a short phrase that summarizes the entire topic.
  • A division of an act of Congress or Parliament.
  • (sports) The recognition given to the winner of a championship in sports.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Man City 3-2 QPR , passage=With some City fans already leaving the stadium in tears, Edin Dzeko equalised in the second of five minutes of stoppage time before Sergio Aguero scored the goal that won the title .}}
  • * 1997 , David Kenneth Wiggins, Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America
    • Equally disadvantageous to Jackson was the fact that other than the Jacksonville Athletic Club and the National Sporting Club, virtually no organization was willing to sponsor a title fight between a black fighter and a white one.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * abstract of title * end titles * entitle * job title * long title * running title * short title * subtitle * supertitle * surtitle * title character * title track * Torrens title * working title

    Verb

    (titl)
  • To assign a title to; to entitle.