It Is My Honor to Know You

honour

( honours plural & 3rd person present ) ( honouring present participle ) ( honoured past tense & past participle )
in AM, use laurels

1 due north-uncount Honour means doing what you lot believe to be right and existence confident that you have done what is right.
I do not believe I tin any longer serve with accolade as a member of your government.

2 n-count An award is a special award that is given to someone, usually because they have done something practiced or because they are greatly respected.
He was showered with honours<endash>amid them an Oscar.

3 verb If someone is honoured, they are given public praise or an honour for something they accept done.
usu passive
Two American surgeons were final calendar week honoured with the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology... be V-ed

4 due north-sing If you describe doing or experiencing something as an accolade, yous hateful you recall information technology is something special and desirable.
oft N of -ing, it v-link N to-inf
V other cities had been competing for the honour of staging the Games...

5 v-passive If you say that y'all wouldbe honouredto do something, you are maxim very politely and formally that you would be pleased to do information technology. If you lot say that you are honouredby something, you lot are saying that you are grateful for information technology and pleased almost it. , (politeness) Peter Alliss says he would be honoured to be asked... be V-ed to-inf
It's a very flattering offer, and I'1000 honoured by your conviction in me. be V-ed

6 verb To honour someone means to treat them or regard them with special attending and respect.
Her Majesty later on honoured the Headmaster with her presence at luncheon... V due north with n
Those right-wing people who near honour their monarch see no reason for whatever apology. V n
♦ honoured adj ADJ n
Mrs Patrick Campbell was an honoured guest.

7 verb If you honour an system or hope, you do what you said you would do.
The two sides agreed to honour a new armistice... Five n

8 n-uncount Honours is a blazon of academy degree which is of a college standard than a pass or ordinary degree.
usu N north
...an honours degree in business studies.

9 n-voc Judges, and mayors in the United States, are sometimes called your accolade or referred to as his honour or her honour.
poss N; PRON: poss PRON
I bring this upward, your accolade, considering I think it is of import to sympathise the background of the defendant.

10
→ guest of honour
→ lap of honour
→ maid of laurels

11 If someone does the honours at a social occasion or public effect, they act as host or perform some official function.
INFORMAL
♦ do the honours phrase 5 inflects
A well-known television personality did the honours at the official opening of the show.

12 If something is arranged in award of a particular event, it is bundled in social club to celebrate that consequence.
♦ in honor of prep-phrase
The Foundation is property a dinner at the Museum of American Art in accolade of the opening of their new show.

13 If something is arranged or happens in someone's honour, it is done peculiarly to show appreciation of them.
♦ in sb'due south honour phrase n PHR, PHR subsequently v, PHR with cl
He will attend an outdoor concert in his honour in the centre of Paris...

time-honoured
A time-honoured tradition or way of doing something is one that has been used and respected for a very long time. adj ADJ north (=age-old)
The beer is brewed in the time-honoured manner at the Castle Eden Brewery.

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IDK	abbr. acron.	Brusk for "I don't know".	[Fam.]
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JSYK	abbr. acron.	Short for "just so yous know".	[Fam.]

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