Used in a Sentence

honoured

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for honoured.

Editorial note

What you might really mean here is the time-honoured principle of seeing a good design somewhere and mindlessly cargo-culting it to produce a bad design somewhere else.

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Quick take

(British spelling) Respected, having received honour.

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

(British spelling) Respected, having received honour.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for honoured.

adjective

(British spelling) Respected, having received honour.

Example sentences

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What you might really mean here is the time-honoured principle of seeing a good design somewhere and mindlessly cargo-culting it to produce a bad design somewhere else.

2

From my point of view, the process has been intensely political from day one, with rules honoured mainly in the breach.

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I think this might be a statement more honoured in the breech after looking at the YC15 alumni.

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If all of Ruby honoured Bundler, we could let the Ruby runtime itself handle the gem isolation.

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I'm honoured you all took the part of your busy schedule to suggest us what to do.

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Historically, one adversary was someone now honoured with a US public holiday, right?

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This was about 25 years ago, but I'm honoured to have met him and will always remember his enthusiasm and charisma.

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It will be honoured from generation to generation.

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I wouldn't expect a company or a prosecutor to press charges over it, but demanding that your fraudulent transaction be honoured certainly seems like pushing your luck.

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It's very unlikely to be an either or, and I believe the contingency right now is that in worst case, British passports will be honoured till expiry.

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Personally I'd have been honoured if something I came up with gets big with sites like these, picked up and carried on by smart people like these.

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I think part of the problem is that at the more extreme end they think that the world economy is going to collapse, so that if they're right, there will be no way those contracts will be honoured.

Quote examples

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"The International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, has honoured him as ‘one of the noblest of the world’." The International Biographical Centre is a notorious scam..

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Sometimes I think it's just a part of society, no matter the cultural, ethnical or economical background people have - if you trust them to "do the right thing", most suddenly feel sort of honoured and obligated to behave the right way.

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> According to the customer who complained about them (who is, after all, the person with the money) There is a time honoured tradition regarding what to do if you have money and don't like the artistic style of the author, and "demand their publisher pulls the book or forces the author to change their style to suit you" isn't it.

Proper noun examples

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Honoured to have you reply to my comment, sir:-) I wonder, what is the primary reason you believe a tool like Rascal couldn't be the engine behind the Nimrod compiler?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use honoured in a sentence?

What you might really mean here is the time-honoured principle of seeing a good design somewhere and mindlessly cargo-culting it to produce a bad design somewhere else.

What does honoured mean?

(British spelling) Respected, having received honour.

What part of speech is honoured?

honoured is commonly used as adjective.