Honoured

//ˈɑnɚd// adj, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of honour UK, form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Respected, having received honour. UK

    "One of them is the time-honoured method of our forefathers"

Adjective
  1. 1
    having an illustrious reputation; respected wordnet

Synonyms

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esteemedhonoredprestigious

Example

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"Poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkenness is not a virtue, and that that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice."

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time-honoured

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