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HONORED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does honored mean? 

HONORED (adjective)
  The adjective HONORED has 1 sense:

1. having an illustrious reputation; respectedplay

  Familiarity information: HONORED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HONORED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having an illustrious reputation; respected

Synonyms:

esteemed; honored; prestigious

Context example:

a prestigious author

Similar:

reputable (having a good reputation)


 Context examples 


François’s whip snapped less frequently, and Perrault even honored Buck by lifting up his feet and carefully examining them.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He is not rich, but he is honored and hath great friends.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"The Pot" he honored with reading aloud, as he did "Adventure." "Joy," his latest-born, completed the day before and tossed into the corner for lack of stamps, won his keenest approbation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Some of the best and most honored women I know were poor girls, but so love-worthy that they were not allowed to be old maids.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

These are the sort of men that a woman could worship with all her soul, and yet be the greater, not the less, on account of her love, honored by all the world as the inspirer of noble deeds.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

God be with thee, my honored lord, and have thee in his holy keeping.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He never spoke of himself, and no one ever knew that in his native city he had been a man much honored and esteemed for learning and integrity, till a countryman came to see him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

To Mr. Higginbotham such a dinner was advertisement of his worldly achievement and prosperity, and he honored it by delivering platitudinous sermonettes upon American institutions and the opportunity said institutions gave to any hard-working man to rise—the rise, in his case, which he pointed out unfailingly, being from a grocer's clerk to the ownership of Higginbotham's Cash Store.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And perhaps, most honored sir, it would please you to continue the debate.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She felt proud to know that he was an honored Professor in Berlin, though only a poor language-master in America, and his homely, hard-working life was much beautified by the spice of romance which this discovery gave it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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