honorable mention

1. 1.

   an official recognition of merit

   “although he didn't win the prize he did get special mention”

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Questions about honorable mention

What does honorable mention mean?

honorable mention means "an official recognition of merit".

What is another word for honorable mention?

Close synonyms include mention. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is honorable mention a common word?

honorable mention is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.