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Definition of Honours
1. Noun. A university degree with honors.
Generic synonyms: Academic Degree, Degree
Specialized synonyms: First, First-class Honours Degree
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Definition of Honours
1. Noun. (plural of honour) ¹
2. Verb. (third-person singular of honour) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Honours
1. honour [v] - See also: honour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Honours
Literary usage of Honours
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The value of tricks and honours varies with the nal declared as trumps. honours are
reckoned differently from m hist, and on a scale which is somewhat ..."
2. The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty (1883)
"Let us further observe, that, in this point, she ought to be guided by prudence,
and inclined to proportion the titles and honours of her chief to the power ..."
3. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1837)
"The temporal honours, which the devout Paula" in- ln-iii.il and despised, are
carefully recapitulated l>y .!. nmi, the guide of her conscience, ..."
4. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"... ОЛЛ NOTABLE honours OF THE YEAR Among the honours notified in the New Year
and Birthday honours Lists. 1963, and at other times during the year, ..."
5. Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by Hakluyt Society (1888)
"(B.) " May it Pleas Your honours, Dated at end, " BANJAR, 14th Feby. ...
Accordingly we went there, and in Our way we mett One of your honours Soldiers who ..."
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