Honorable Definition

ŏnər-ə-bəl
adjective
Worthy of being honored.
Webster's New World
Bringing honor to the owner or doer.
Webster's New World
Bringing distinction or recognition.
Honorable service to one's nation.
American Heritage
Having or showing a sense of right and wrong; characterized by honesty and integrity; upright.
Webster's New World
Possessing and characterized by honor.
An honorable person.
American Heritage
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Origin of Honorable

  • From Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin honōrābilis, from honōrō (“I honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable.

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Honorable Sentence Examples

  • We will have ended war with an honorable peace.

  • Everybody isn't as honorable as you, Carmen.

  • He speaks highly of Taran, says he is an honorable man.

  • They were different men with different purposes, yet both honorable to the core.

  • You know, Count, it is much more honorable to admit one's mistake than to let matters become irreparable.

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