honorary society

Questions about honorary society

What does honorary society mean?

honorary society means "an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature".

What is another word for honorary society?

Close synonyms include academy. 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 society a common word?

honorary society 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.