HONOURS DEGREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does honours degree mean? 

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

1. a university degree with honors

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HONOURS DEGREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A university degree with honors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

honours; honours degree

Hypernyms ("honours degree" 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 degree"):

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