in honour of
Preposition
Meaning
in honour of
Celebrating or showing admiration for.
Examples
Never pay any attention to what critics say...Remember, a statue has never been set up in honour of a critic!
You like the party? Is it in honour of anything? My cat's birthday. Where's your cat? I don't know, he ran away.
"In the Islamic world many places of worship belonging to the earlier religion have been converted to mosques.” M. Shokoohy: "Two fire temples converted to mosques in central Iran”, Papers in Honour of Professor Mary Boyce, EJ. Brill, Leiden 1985, p.546.
I love him, I really do. How much? Well, you know Leningrad in Russia. They should name it Lennongrad in honour of him.