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honorable
/ˈɑn.ə.ɹəbl̩/
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What does honorable mean?
adjective
- Behaving in a manner that shows honor; decent, having integrity.
- Worthy of respect; respectable.
- Complying with cultural rules regarding honor; not provoking shame or disgrace.
More meanings (4)
adjective
- A courtesy title, given in Britain and the Commonwealth to a cabinet minister, minister of state, or senator, and in the United States to the president, vice president, congresspeople, state governors and legislators, and mayors.
- A courtesy title, given in the United Kingdom to all sons and daughters of viscounts and barons and to the younger sons of earls.
- Alternative letter-case form of honorable.
noun
- A politician or other person who bears the title of "honorable".
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɑn.ə.ɹəbl̩/
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She was wandering about in honorable idleness, and when his eyes fell upon her she delivered him one of her curtsies.
But that which is undoubtedly false of M. Humann is true of many others, as rich and no less honorable than he.
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The mother, true to the ancient and honorable precedents of her family, went into a month of helplessness following the sad news.
As a vicious nature, though of an ancient stock, is dishonorable, it must be virtue itself, and not birth, that makes virtue honorable.
They were, perhaps, doubly precious, as they constituted the sum total of all that he had gathered--besides an honorable fame--from his various campaignings.