honors
ON-urz/ˈɑn.ɚz/UKON-uhz/ˈɒn.əz/
UK spellinghonours
- 1Plural of honor. Use this form when you mean more than one.
She received many honors for her brave work.
The school handed out honors at the end of the year.
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- 2Used for harder classes made for students who do very well in school.
She enrolled in honors chemistry her junior year.
He earned a spot in the honors program.
Similaradvanced, accelerated
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- 3Third-person singular simple present of honor. Use this form with he, she, or it.
She honors her grandmother by keeping the old family recipes alive.
The store honors every coupon at checkout.
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honors is a form of honor
honor, noun: Great respect shown to someone people admire or look up to. Full entry
- Forms
- honorhonors plural
- Spelling
- honor → honors: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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