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Honour can be a noun or a verb.

honour used as a noun:

  1. High rank or respect.
  2. Dignity; reputation as a good person.
    "His honour is at stake."
  3. An objectification of praiseworthiness or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as an award given by the state to a citizen.
    "Honours are normally awarded twice a year: on The Queen's Birthday in June and at the New Year."
  4. A privilege.
    "I had the honour of dining with the ambassador."
  5. The centre point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon.
  6. In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.
  7. The right to play one's ball before one's opponent plays his.
  8. For honours degree, a university qualification of the highest rank.
    "At university I took honours in modern history."

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

honour used as a verb:

  1. To think of highly, to respect highly.
    "The freedom fighters will be forever remembered and honoured by the people."
  2. To confer an honour or privilege upon (someone).
    "Ten members of the profession were honoured at the ceremony."
  3. To conform with, obey (e.g. a treaty or promise)
    "I trusted you, but you have not honoured your promise."
  4. To make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft etc).
    "I'm sorry Sir, but the bank did not honour your cheque."

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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As detailed above, 'honour' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: His honour is at stake.
  2. Noun usage: She swore on her honour.
  3. Noun usage: Honours are normally awarded twice a year: on The Queen's Birthday in June and at the New Year.
  4. Noun usage: I had the honour of dining with the ambassador.
  5. Noun usage: At university I took honours in modern history.
  6. Verb usage: The freedom fighters will be forever remembered and honoured by the people.
  7. Verb usage: Ten members of the profession were honoured at the ceremony.
  8. Verb usage: The prince honoured me with an invitation to his birthday banquet.
  9. Verb usage: I trusted you, but you have not honoured your promise.
  10. Verb usage: I'm sorry Sir, but the bank did not honour your cheque.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of honour are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of honour, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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