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# honorable

adjective (more honorable, most honorable); British spelling honourable

«honorable» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Honorable means good and fair, deserving respect. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honorable/#m1)
2. (formal) Honorable is used as a title of respect for some judges and officials, as in «the honorable judge». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honorable/#m2)

### In the lessons

in stories a knight who keeps his word is honorable; in lessons it describes fair and good behaviour

### Examples

- "That's an honorable thought," said the Sunbeam. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honorable/#x1)
- He always kept his promises; he was an honorable man. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honorable/#x2)
- It was an honorable thing to share the last cake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honorable/#x3)
- The honorable widow was trusted by everyone in the village. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honorable/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

in stories a knight who keeps his word is honorable; in lessons it describes fair and good behaviour

### Examples

- When the Honorable Mayer Sulzberger heard me expressing my views on Hebrew orthography, he advised me to make a study of the Sefer Yetzirah which in his opinion constitutes the earliest Hebrew grammar extant. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/honorable/#x1)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «honorable» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honorable/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«honorable» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/honorable.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «honorable» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/honorable/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«honorable» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/honorable.html) on Mova free.