- 1可敬的、正直的；（頭銜）尊敬的（美式拼法；英式是 honourable）
This is the American spelling of honourable. British English keeps the u: honourable. The word means deserving respect — a person, an act, or a reason that is honest, fair, and worth looking up to. People also put it before a name as a title, the Honorable, for certain judges or members of government. In older, rather formal talk, a man might say he has honorable intentions toward a woman, meaning he wants to marry her, not use her.
Though actually, on and in speeches the Honorable is often just the expected title, not proof that the person is especially good. The feeling is formal. American schools will want honorable; British and many Taiwan exam papers still print honourable. Same word, different letters.
組成From Middle English honourable, from Old French honorable / honurable, from Latin honōrābilis, from honōrō (“to honour”). By surface analysis, honor + -able. Cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable.
同家族的字
- honorhonorable is honor plus -able: able to be honoured, or worthy of honour
- honourablethe same word in British spelling
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
honorableadj/ˈɒn.ə ɹəbl̩/
- 1
Behaving in a manner that shows honor; decent, having integrity.
- 2
Worthy of respect; respectable.
- In confinement ladies are attended, not by the ordinary doctors, but by women especially devoted to the calling, who regard their profession as honorable and humanitary.
- 3
Complying with cultural rules regarding honor; not provoking shame or disgrace.
- That culture considered it no disgrace to be defeated in honorable combat.
- Luxury was abolished. People lived in honorable marriage. All the women were chaste, faithful, and far from wantoners.
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governmentpoliticsA courtesy title, given in Britain and the Commonwealth to a cabinet minister, minister of state, or senator, and in the United States to the president, vice president, congresspeople, state governors and legislators, and mayors.
- Uncheered by friends, unhissed by foes, the honorable member blandly continued his speech […]
- 5
A courtesy title, given in the United Kingdom to all sons and daughters of viscounts and barons and to the younger sons of earls.
honorablenoun/ˈɒn.ə ɹəbl̩/
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A politician or other person who bears the title of "honorable".
- These included a reception for the Congress participants, given by the city of Barcelona in a 14th century palace, with guards making room for the mayor and other honorables, […]
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