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HONOURS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A university degree with honors
Synonyms:
honours; honours degree
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("honours" is a kind of...):
academic degree; degree (an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "honours"):
first; first-class honours degree (an honours degree of the highest class)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb honour
Context examples:
I couldn't think of doing the honours of the feast, at my time of life, while he was by; my hand shook at the very thought of it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Upon the hint of having spoken disrespectfully or carelessly of the family and the family honours, he was quite indignant.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Four fine mornings successively were spent in this manner, in shewing the Crawfords the country, and doing the honours of its finest spots.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I have scarcely any hesitation in saying she will include you and my sister Maria in every invitation with which she honours us during your stay here.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Recalled by his request, preferred in quite another tone of voice, I did the honours of the shaving-pot; but I did them with an unsteadiness of hand, a sudden sense of being no match for him, and a perplexed suspicious anxiety as to what he might be going to say next, which I felt could not escape his observation.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Sir Henry Russell's widow, indeed, has no honours to distinguish her arms, but still it is a handsome equipage, and no doubt is well known to convey a Miss Elliot.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
She should have to do the honours of the evening; and this reflection quickly restored so much of her good-humour as enabled her to join in with the others, before their happiness and thanks were all expressed.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
After looking at him for a little while, she sank down closer to him, laid her arm across his knee, and dropping her head upon it, said: If I have any friend here, who can speak one word for me, or for my husband in this matter; if I have any friend here, who can give a voice to any suspicion that my heart has sometimes whispered to me; if I have any friend here, who honours my husband, or has ever cared for me, and has anything within his knowledge, no matter what it is, that may help to mediate between us, I implore that friend to speak!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Surprise was the strongest emotion raised by their appearance; but Anne was really glad to see them; and the others were not so sorry but that they could put on a decent air of welcome; and as soon as it became clear that these, their nearest relations, were not arrived with any views of accommodation in that house, Sir Walter and Elizabeth were able to rise in cordiality, and do the honours of it very well.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Have you honours?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
