honours

Questions about honours

What does honours mean?

honours means "a university degree with honors".

How many syllables are in honours?

honours has 2 syllables and divides as ho-nours under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for honours?

Close synonyms include honours degree. 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 honours a common word?

honours is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.