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# honorable

«honorable» in Mova's school dictionary: **good and fair, deserving respect** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more honorable, most honorable); British spelling honourable

### meaning for a pupil

1) Honorable means good and fair, deserving respect. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honorable/#m1)

2) (formal) Honorable is used as a title of respect for some judges and officials, as in «the honorable judge». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honorable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a knight who keeps his word is honorable; in lessons it describes fair and good behaviour

### examples

- "That's an honorable thought," said the Sunbeam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honorable/#x1)
- He always kept his promises; he was an honorable man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honorable/#x2)
- It was an honorable thing to share the last cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honorable/#x3)
- The honorable widow was trusted by everyone in the village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honorable/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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