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Your Honor

Your Honor pronoun: you.

Pronoun

Your Honor

  1. (formal, obsolete, addressing someone of higher rank or status than oneself) you
    • Touching the firſt, I refer my ſelf to your Honors favourable Opinion, and the Character which my Lord S. and others ſhall give of me: […]1626 September 17 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XXV. To the Right Honourable the Lord Conway, Principal Secretary of State to His Majesty, at Hampton Court.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar...
    • The numbers of the French have been greatly magnified, as your Honor may see by a copy of the enclosed journal of a person, whom I sent out to gain intelligence.1847, George Washington, The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, page 26
  2. (US, formal, addressing a judge or magistrate) you
  3. (Philippines, formal) you (a form of address for a representative or senator in the Philippine Congress during hearings and inquiries, and for canvassers during the canvass of electoral results).

Your Honor meaning in Sanskrit and Arabic

Your Honor in Sanskrit

Your Honor; Your Excellency; Your Worship
भवत् bhávat, भवती bhávatī

Your Honor in Arabic

Translations
حَضْرَتُك ḥaḍratuk

Forms of Your Honor

alternative UKYour Honour

Words formed from Your Honor

Questions about Your Honor

What does Your Honor mean?
Your Honor means you.
What is Your Honor in Sanskrit?
Your Honor in Sanskrit is भवत् (bhávat), भवती (bhávatī). See Your Honor meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is Your Honor?
Your Honor is a pronoun.

Words near Your Honor in the dictionary

  1. your guys's
  2. your head
  3. Your Highness
  4. Your Highnessness
  5. Your Holiness
  6. Your Honor
  7. Your Honors
  8. Your Honour
  9. Your Imperial Highness
  10. Your Imperial Majesties
  11. Your Imperial Majesty

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Your Honor (page history and authors); भवती (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). 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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