honorary degree

Questions about honorary degree

What does honorary degree mean?

honorary degree means "a degree conferred to honor the recipient".

What is another word for honorary degree?

Close synonyms include honoris causa. 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 honorary degree a common word?

honorary degree 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.