EGAVE

honorable

About 3.64 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Behaving in a manner that shows honor; decent, having integrity.
  2. adjective Worthy of respect; respectable.
  3. adjective Complying with cultural rules regarding honor; not provoking shame or disgrace.
    That culture considered it no disgrace to be defeated in honorable combat.
  4. adjective A courtesy title, given in Britain and the Commonwealth to a cabinet minister, minister of state, or senator, and in the United States to the president, vice president, congresspeople, state governors and legislators, and mayors.
  5. adjective A courtesy title, given in the United Kingdom to all sons and daughters of viscounts and barons and to the younger sons of earls.
  6. noun A politician or other person who bears the title of "honorable".

Similar words

respectable estimable worthy reputable upstanding honourable good honest august moral

Often followed by

member and members gentleman to man mention men the

Word family

honorabilities honorability honorableness honorablenesses honorably

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