right honorable
right honorable is the alternative form of right honourable.
Meaning of right honourable
Adjective
right honourable (not comparable)
- A courtesy title applied to a peer below the rank of marquess.
- A courtesy title applied to a privy counsellor, to the lord mayor of various cities, governor general, and to the prime minister of certain Commonwealth countries.
- I have in honourable and right honourable gentlemen opposite an admirable example of how to cut the painter of a similar league, with the maximum of political advancement, and the minimum of fidelity to a founder.1906, FE Smith, maiden speech to House of Commons, 12 Mar 1906
Adjective capitalized: Right Honorable
Right Honorable
- Alternative letter-case form of right honorable.
Forms of right honorable
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Questions about right honorable
- What is right honorable the alternative form of?
- Right honorable is the alternative form of right honourable.
- What part of speech is right honorable?
- Right honorable is an adjective.
Words near right honorable in the dictionary
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