honorific

Speech parts

1. honorific - Noun

2. honorific - Adjective

3. honorific - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Conferring honor; tending to honor.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

esquire name free good position style title rank handle label honor genuine nominal voluntary designation
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Antonyms

low base naughty false illegal evil
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Hypernyms

expression formulation

Phrases with the word

female honorific muslim honorific ottoman honorific palindromic honorific

Examples

the Japanese use many honorifics Source: Internet

honorific social status commonly attaches to membership in a recognized profession Source: Internet

After being forced by the sovereign to resign, he received the purely honorific title of "Duke of Lauenburg", without the duchy itself and the sovereignty that would have transformed his family into a mediatized house. Source: Internet

Animators Haruhiko Mikimoto and Shōji Kawamori had used the term among themselves as an honorific second-person pronoun since the late 1970s. Source: Internet

Bacup received a charter of incorporation in 1882, giving it honorific borough status and its own elected town government, consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors to oversee local affairs. Source: Internet

Another form, でございます de gozaimasu, which is the more formal version of de arimasu, in the etymological sense a conjugation of でござる de gozaru and an honorific suffix -ます -masu, is also used in some situations and is very polite. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

honorer Honoria Honorian honorific transposition honorificabilitudinitatibus honorificabilitudinity