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say it: AH-nur
honour is a noun and verb meaning "the state of being honored". It is pronounced /ˈɑnɚ/ — AH-nur. It carries 7 recorded senses.
a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction
“an award for bravery”
the quality of being honorable and having a good name
“a man of honor”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for honour come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.