HONOURS LIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does honours list mean? 

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

1. a list issued by examiners that categorizes students according to the class of honours they achieved in their degree examinations

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HONOURS LIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A list issued by examiners that categorizes students according to the class of honours they achieved in their degree examinations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

class list; honours list

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

list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))

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)

 Context examples 

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

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)