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# honor

«honor» in Mova's school dictionary: **respect and a good name that a person earns by being good…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (honors); verb (honors, honored, honoring); British spelling honour

### meaning for a pupil

1) Honor is respect and a good name that a person earns by being good and brave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honor/#m1)

2) An honor is a prize, medal or special mark of respect given to someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honor/#m2)

3) To honor someone is to show great respect for them, for example with a ceremony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honor/#m3)

4) (formal) «In his honor» means as a way of celebrating him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honor/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a hero wins honor and a medal; in lessons it names praise for good deeds; phrases: a point of honor, in honor of, do someone honor

### examples

- The hero won the honor of a medal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honor/#x1)
- Now he has the cross of honor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honor/#x2)
- The town held a party in her honor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honor/#x3)
- Our school will honor the winners at the end of term. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honor/#x4)
- She felt great honor at being chosen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honor/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «honor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.