honorable

«honorable» in Mova's school dictionary: good and fair, deserving respect — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (more honorable, most honorable); British spelling honourable

meaning for a pupil

1) Honorable means good and fair, deserving respect. tree →

2) (formal) Honorable is used as a title of respect for some judges and officials, as in «the honorable judge». tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories a knight who keeps his word is honorable; in lessons it describes fair and good behaviour

examples

• "That's an honorable thought," said the Sunbeam. tree →
• He always kept his promises; he was an honorable man. tree →
• It was an honorable thing to share the last cake. tree →
• The honorable widow was trusted by everyone in the village. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «honorable» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.