honor

IPA: ˈɑnɝ

(uncountable) Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful).
(uncountable) The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity.
(countable) A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen.
A privilege (which honors the person experiencing it).
(in the plural) The privilege of going first.
(golf) The right to play one's ball before one's opponent.
A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
(feudal law) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.
(heraldry, countable) The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon (compare honour point).
(countable, card games) In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit; in some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.
(in the plural) (Courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank.
A female given name from English.
A surname.

(transitive) To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of.
(transitive) To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like).
(transitive) To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone).
(transitive) To make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft, etc.).

Examples of "honor" in Sentences

It isn't money -- it is honor -- _honor_, do you hear?
"It's odd to hear the term honor associated with any of this," she said.
Although his pride was based on no visible achievement, Mahad often used the term honor.
_Let them be counted worthy of double honor: _ or, _Let them be dignified with double honor_.
We should honor, love and _obey_ our parents while we are young; and we should still _love_ and _honor_ them when we are older.
_unworthy_, and dignor, _deem worthy of_; as, -- dignī honōre, _worthy of honor (i.e. in point of honor_); fidē indignī, _unworthy of confidence_; mē dignor honōre, _I deem myself worthy of honor_.
"Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially --," 1 Tim.v. 17: whether we take _double honor_ here for reverence or maintenance, or both; yet how can we esteem the _elders ruling well worthy of double honor_ without some submission to their rule?
Council-General, -- some of which depositions were upon oath, some upon honor, and others neither upon _oath_ nor _honor_, but all or most of which were of an irregular and irrelevant nature, and not fit or decent to be taken by a British magistrate, or to be transmitted to a British government.