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# honouring

«honouring» in Mova's school dictionary: **Showing great respect to someone, often in a ceremony or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb, -ing form of «honour» (honour, honours, honoured, honouring); US honoring

### meaning for a pupil

1) Showing great respect to someone, often in a ceremony or with an award. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honouring/#m1)

2) Keeping a promise or agreement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honouring/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in news, history and school assemblies: «a ceremony honouring the soldiers», «honouring our heroes». In moral lessons: «honouring your word» means doing what you promised.

### examples

- The school held an assembly honouring the retiring headteacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honouring/#x1)
- Remembrance Day is about honouring people who died in wars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honouring/#x2)
- We planted a tree honouring our old classmate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honouring/#x3)
- He is honouring his promise to help me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honouring/#x4)
- The town is honouring the lifeguard who saved two children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honouring/#x5)
- A new stamp is honouring the famous scientist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honouring/#x6)

### note

Silent «h»: «an honouring ceremony». US spelling «honoring». See «honour» for meanings; «-ing» shows the action is going on or describes something that honours.

### In the corpora

- [Keeping a promise to someone who has died is a way of honouring them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/79-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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