Honor (disambiguation)
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Honour
is the quality of being honorable.
Honor or honour may also refer to:
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Honour
Honour or honor is an abstract concept entailing a perceived quality of worthiness and respectability that affects both the social standing and the self-evaluation of an individual or corporate body such as a family, school, regiment or nation...
is the quality of being honorable.
Honor or honour may also refer to:
- His HonourHis HonourHis Honour or Her Honour is an honorific prefix which is traditionally applied to certain classes of people, in particular justices and judges and mayors...
, a pre-nominal honorific - Honour (feudal land tenure)
- Honour (play)Honour (play)Honour is a 1995 play by the Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith.It tells the familiar tale of a middle aged man, George, who leaves his wife, Honour, and their 24-year-old daughter, Sophie, for a relationship with a much younger woman by the name of Claudia.It was first performed in...
, a 1995 play by Joanna Murray-Smith - Honor (band)Honor (band)Honor was a Polish Rock Against Communism band. Their lyrical themes are related to National Socialism, neopaganism and the white power skinhead movement. Until 1999, the band played typical RAC, and then moved to pagan metal music. In January 2002, vocalist Mariusz Szczerski was arrested for...
, a Polish band - Honor, MichiganHonor, MichiganHonor is a village in Benzie County of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 299. The village is located within Homestead Township on U.S...
, a village in the United States - Honor, a high-valued card in contract bridge
- Honors, in bridge scoringBridge scoringBridge scoring is keeping score in contract bridge. There are two common methods of scoring a single deal: "duplicate" and "rubber" scoring. These two methods are similar, but differ in how the components of the score are accumulated....
, a bonus for the holding of high-valued cards
People with the name
- Honor BlackmanHonor BlackmanHonor Blackman is an English actress, known for the roles of Cathy Gale in The Avengers and Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger .-Early life:...
, actress - Honor Crowley, Irish Fianna Fáil politician
- Honor FellHonor FellDame Dr Honor Bridget Fell, DBE, Ph.D, D.Sc, FRS was a British scientist and zoologist. Her contributions to science included the development of the organ culture method, similar to stem cell research.-Career:...
, British scientist and zoologist - Honor Ford-SmithHonor Ford-SmithHonor Maria Ford-Smith is a Jamaican actress, playwright, scholar, and poet. The daughter of a brown Jamaican mother and an English father, Ford-Smith is sometimes described as "Jamaica white," signalling a person of mixed race who appears white.Ford-Smith, who studied theatre at the University of...
, Jamaican actress, playwright, scholar, and poet - Honor FraserHonor FraserHonor Fraser is a Scottish art dealer in California and a former British fashion model. She is the sister of the 16th Lord Lovat and was brought up at Beaufort Castle in Scotland.-Early years:...
, art dealer and former catwalk model - Honor HargerHonor HargerHonor Harger is a curator and artist from New Zealand. She has a particular interest in artistic uses of new technologies.In the mid 1990s while based in New Zealand, Honor edited the artistic publication, SPeC; co-founded sound art collective Relay, worked with radio station, Radio One and with...
, curator and artist from New Zealand - Honor MooreHonor MooreHonor Moore is an American writer of poetry, creative nonfiction and plays.She is the author of three collections of poems: Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir; two works of nonfiction, The White Blackbird and The Bishop's Daughter; and the play Mourning Pictures, which was produced on Broadway and...
, American writer - Honor TracyHonor TracyHonor Tracy is the pseudonym of Lilbush Wingfield , who was a British writer, born at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk....
or Lilbush Wingfield, British writer - Honors, OwenOwen HonorsOwen Paul Honors, Jr., is a United States Navy captain who served as commanding officer of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier before being controversially relieved of his command due to videos he had made and shown aboard the same vessel while he was serving as executive officer.-Early life and...
, a US Navy Officer
Fictional
- Honor HarringtonHonor HarringtonHonor Stephanie Alexander-Harrington is a fictional character, the heroine of a series of military science fiction books set in the "Honorverse", written by David Weber and published by Baen Books....
, the main character of the Honorverse series by David Weber
See also
- Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom
- Orders, decorations, and medals of Canada
- Honor systemHonor systemAn honor system or honesty system is a philosophical way of running a variety of endeavors based on trust, honor, and honesty. Something that operates under the rule of the "honor system" is usually something that does not have strictly enforced rules governing its principles...
or trust system, a philosophical way of running a variety of endeavors - Honors courseHonors courseHonors course is a distinction applied in the United States to certain classes to distinguish them from standard course offerings. The difference between a regular class and the honors class is not necessarily the amount of work, but the type of work required and the pace of studying...
, a more challenging course in US education - Honors studentHonors studentAn honors student is a person recognized for achieving high grades or high marks in their course work.Honors students may refer to# Students recognized for their academic achievement on lists published periodically throughout the school year, known as honor rolls, varying from school to school, and...
- Honours degree, an undergraduate degree in many countries
- Honours of ScotlandHonours of ScotlandThe Honours of Scotland, also known as the Scottish regalia and the Scottish Crown Jewels, dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, are the oldest set of crown jewels in the British Isles. The existing set were used for the coronation of Scottish monarchs from 1543 to 1651...
- Honours of the Principality of WalesHonours of the Principality of WalesThe Honours of the Principality of Wales are the Crown Jewels used at the investiture of Princes of Wales. They include a coronet, a ring, a rod, a sword, a girdle, and a mantle....
- Latin honorsLatin honorsLatin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. This system is primarily used in the United States, Canada, and in many countries of continental Europe, though some institutions also use the English translation of these...
, e.g., cum laude, magna cum laude, summa cum laude - Honorary citizen
- Matter of Honour (disambiguation)
- Medal of Honor (disambiguation)Medal of Honor (disambiguation)The Medal of Honor is a national U.S. military award.Medal of Honor or Medal of Honour may also refer to:-Awards:National Honours*Medal of Honour...