A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen.
The privilege of going first.
The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon (compare honour point).
A privilege.
(Courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank.
In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.
A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.
The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity.
Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful).
A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
The right to play one's ball before one's opponent.
British spelling, Canadian spelling, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.
Usually in the plural form the merits: the substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matters such as the admissibility of evidence or points of legal procedure; (by extension) the overall good or bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing.
A claim to commendation or a reward.
Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.
The sum of all the good deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment.
To be deserving or worthy.
To deserve, to earn.