HONOURS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does honours mean? 

• HONOURS (noun)
  The noun HONOURS has 1 sense:

1. a university degree with honors

  Familiarity information: HONOURS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HONOURS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A university degree with honors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

honours; honours degree

Hypernyms ("honours" is a kind of...):

academic degree; degree (an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "honours"):

first; first-class honours degree (an honours degree of the highest class)

 Context examples 

Having done the honours of his house in this hospitable manner, Mr. Peggotty went out to wash himself in a kettleful of hot water, remarking that “cold would never get his muck off”.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If you have a fancy to see your name in the next honours list—

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I happened to overhear the gentleman himself mentioning to the young lady who does the honours of the house the names of his cousin Miss de Bourgh, and of her mother Lady Catherine.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

If he should rise to any very great honours!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Grant doing the honours of it, were worth looking at.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Lestrade was not there, but his head constable did the honours.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Charles Tregellis’s selection is limited to men below twenty or above thirty-five years of age, so as to exclude Belcher and the other candidates for championship honours.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not to do the honours of her house with common good breeding!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

With an alacrity beyond the common impulse of a spirit which yet was never indifferent to the credit of doing every thing well and attentively, with the real good-will of a mind delighted with its own ideas, did she then do all the honours of the meal, and help and recommend the minced chicken and scalloped oysters, with an urgency which she knew would be acceptable to the early hours and civil scruples of their guests.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The good understanding between the Colonel and Miss Dashwood seemed rather to declare that the honours of the mulberry-tree, the canal, and the yew arbour, would all be made over to HER; and Mrs. Jennings had, for some time ceased to think at all of Mrs. Ferrars.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)