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honorific | x |

As a noun honorific

is a title (ie, mister, misses, doctor, professor ).

As an adjective honorific

is showing or conferring honour and respect.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

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

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----