honourable
honourable adjective: UK standard spelling of honorable.
Adjective (1)
honourable (comparative more honourable, superlative most honourable)
- UK standard spelling of honorable.
- It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.1846, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2, page 474
- The days of steam on the railways of Kent are now indeed numbered, and when stage two of the electrification is completed through Tonbridge to Ashford, Folkestone and Dover a long and honourable chapter in transport will be virtually closed.1959 October, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, pages 705, 724
Noun
honourable (plural honourables)
- UK standard spelling of honorable.
- So she invites her father and sister to a second day's dinner (if those sides, or ontrys, as she calls 'em, weren't served yesterday, I'm d—d), and to meet City folks and littery men, and keeps the Earls and the Ladies, and the Honourables to herself.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
Adjective (2) capitalized: Honourable
Honourable
- Alternative letter-case form of honourable.
honourable meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
honourable in Hindi
- सम्मानीय
honourable in Tamil
- கெளரவமானவர், கௌரவமானவர்
honourable in Urdu
- عزت مآب
honourable in Bengali
- সম্মানীয়
More languagesFewer languages
- honourable in Malayalam
- ബഹുമാന്യൻ
- honourable in Kannada
- ಗೌರವಾನ್ವಿತರು
- honourable in Punjabi
- ਮਾਣਯੋਗ
Forms of honourable
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more honourable |
| superlative | most honourable |
| Noun | |
| plural | honourables |
Origin of honourable
From Middle English honourable, from Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin honōrābilis, from honōrō (“to honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. By surface analysis, honour + -able. In this sense, largely displaced Old English ārfæst.
Words formed from honourable
Phrases with honourable
Questions about honourable
- What does honourable mean?
- Honourable means UK standard spelling of honorable.
- What is honourable in Hindi?
- Honourable in Hindi is सम्मानीय. See Honourable meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is honourable?
- Honourable can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near honourable in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: honourable (page history and authors); Honourable (page history and authors); honourable (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); honourable (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); honourable (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); honourable (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); honourable (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); honourable (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); honourable (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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