WORD OF HONOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does word of honor mean? 

• WORD OF HONOR (noun)
  The noun WORD OF HONOR has 1 sense:

1. a promise

  Familiarity information: WORD OF HONOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORD OF HONOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A promise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

parole; word; word of honor

Context example:

he gave his word

Hypernyms ("word of honor" is a kind of...):

promise (a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future)

 Context examples 

Word of honor?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Word of honor.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To this end also he made each of us give our word of honor that we would publish or say nothing which would give any exact clue as to the whereabouts of our travels, while the servants were all solemnly sworn to the same effect.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)