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HONOURS DEGREE
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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 degree" 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 degree"):
first; first-class honours degree (an honours degree of the highest class)
