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honble

honble is the abbreviation of honorable.

Meaning of honorable

Adjective

honorable (comparative more honorable, superlative most honorable)

  1. (US) Behaving in a manner that shows honor; decent, having integrity.
  2. (US) Worthy of respect; respectable.
    • In confinement ladies are attended, not by the ordinary doctors, but by women especially devoted to the calling, who regard their profession as honorable and humanitary.1887, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 31, page 629
  3. (US) Complying with cultural rules regarding honor; not provoking shame or disgrace.
    • That culture considered it no disgrace to be defeated in honorable combat.
  4. (US) A courtesy title, given in Britain and the Commonwealth to a cabinet minister, minister of state, or senator, and in the United States to the president, vice president, congresspeople, state governors and legislators, and mayors.
    • Uncheered by friends, unhissed by foes, the honorable member blandly continued his speech […]1872, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, The Unkind Word, and Other Stories, page 145
    Synonyms:
    Hon'ble, Hon.
  5. (US) A courtesy title, given in the United Kingdom to all sons and daughters of viscounts and barons and to the younger sons of earls.

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Questions about honble

What is honble the abbreviation of?
Honble is the abbreviation of honorable.

Words near honble in the dictionary

  1. Honanie
  2. Honans
  3. Honavar
  4. honbasho
  5. honbeast
  6. honble
  7. Honchar
  8. honcho
  9. honchoed
  10. honchoes
  11. honchoing

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