HONOURING | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of honouring in English honouring Add to word list Add to word list present participle of honour honourverb [ T ] UK (US honor) uk /ˈɒn.ər/ us /ˈɑː.nɚ/

honour verb [T] (RESPECT)

C1 to show great respect for someone or something, especially in public: formal We are honoured (= proud and happy) to have you here tonight. I would be honoured to meet him. To honour a promise or agreement is to do what you said you would: They decided not to honour an existing order for aircraft.

• Children need to be taught to honour other people's opinions.
• The treaty honours the rights of both nations.
• The press nowadays seems incapable of honouring anyone's privacy.
• There actually is a rule about not blocking the front entrance, but no one honours it.
• The fund was set up to honour the memory of Joe's grandmother, a tireless social campaigner.

Showing respect and admiration

• admiration
• admire
• admiring
• admiringly
• approving
• approvingly
• fulsome
• fulsomely
• fulsomeness
• glorify
• grovelling
• hallow
• pay your respects idiom
• philogynist
• philogyny
• put someone on a pedestal idiom
• regard someone/something highly
• regild
• woof
• worshipful

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Making & breaking promises & commitments

honour verb [T] (REWARD)

to give someone public praise or a reward: be honoured for He was honoured for his bravery.be honoured with He was honoured with a knighthood. Praising and applauding

• acclaim
• acclamation
• accolade
• adulate
• adulation
• clap
• enthrone
• enthronement
• eulogistic
• eulogistically
• eulogize
• gush
• homage
• laud
• laudation
• laudatory
• laurel
• laurel wreath
• lay it on a bit thick idiom
• ooh

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Examples of honouring

honouring

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Possibly he objected to honouring the unconsecrated bread and wine with excessive ceremony. From the Cambridge English Corpus It is a day of family activities that begins with a church service and the honouring of old fishermen and those who have passed away. From the Cambridge English Corpus It would have been politically reckless simply to end the state programme without honouring claims already earned. From the Cambridge English Corpus Memorial days were significant because descendants in a family united for the purpose of praying and honouring the deceased parents. From the Cambridge English Corpus As a corollary, honouring older people need not stem from charity or condescension but would relate to their capacity to enhance societal life in general. From the Cambridge English Corpus Preliminary estimates put the cost of honouring that guarantee at $71 billion in the first decade and $91 billion over 20 years. From the Cambridge English Corpus But to achieve redistribution while honouring their institutional commitments, these governments need to combine a number of not always coherent policy instruments in corporatist countries. From the Cambridge English Corpus But honouring a new member's seniority would be a delicate matter, because those further back in the seniority queue might complain. From the Cambridge English Corpus These are not matters of honouring and respecting, dishonouring and shaming, by the standards of any honour code, however admirable. From the Cambridge English Corpus With this volume we are honouring a scientist who can truly be said to have built bridges between mathematics and theoretical computer science. From the Cambridge English Corpus It welcomes multiple interpretations from varied vantage points, at all times honouring the dignity of those re-presented. From the Cambridge English Corpus To be effective, the government also needed to show that it was honouring its previous mandate. From the Cambridge English Corpus They would reject the view that the state either should or may coerce people into honouring this duty by, for instance, threatening to punish infidelity with a jail sentence. From the Cambridge English Corpus Honouring individual stances of origins and expertise in teachers and students is a practice enacted through trust, and becomes curricular as it is co-created as living text. From the Cambridge English Corpus This early experiment in social policy re-ected the interests of a wide range of reformers concerned with honouring motherhood, dealing with the problem of child poverty and preventing juvenile delinquency. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

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    • honour (REWARD)
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