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honorable

adj
/ˈɒn.ə ɹəbl̩/UK/ˈɑn.ə.ɹəbl̩/US

Etymology

From Middle English honourable, from Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin honōrābilis, from honōrō (“to honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. By surface analysis, honor + -able. In this sense, largely displaced Old English ārfæst.

  1. derived from honōrābilis
  2. derived from honorable
  3. inherited from honourable

Definitions

  1. Behaving in a manner that shows honor

    Behaving in a manner that shows honor; decent, having integrity.

  2. Worthy of respect

    Worthy of respect; respectable.

    • In confinement ladies are attended, not by the ordinary doctors, but by women especially devoted to the calling, who regard their profession as honorable and humanitary.

  3. Complying with cultural rules regarding honor

    Complying with cultural rules regarding honor; not provoking shame or disgrace.

    • That culture considered it no disgrace to be defeated in honorable combat.
    • Luxury was abolished. People lived in honorable marriage. All the women were chaste, faithful, and far from wantoners.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A courtesy title, given in Britain and the Commonwealth to a cabinet minister, minister…

      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.

      • Uncheered by friends, unhissed by foes, the honorable member blandly continued his speech […]

    2. A politician or other person who bears the title of "honorable".

      • These included a reception for the Congress participants, given by the city of Barcelona in a 14th century palace, with guards making room for the mayor and other honorables, […]

    3. Alternative letter-case form of honorable.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at honorable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01honorable02worthy03admirable04heroic05heroism06bravery07magnificence08magnificent09noble

A definitional loop anchored at honorable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at honorable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA