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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar

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honours

/ˈɒnə/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈɒnə/

honours

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

ho - nours -> honours

Myanmar meaning

(n[pl]) လေးစားမှုများ (v[sg]) ဂုဏ်ပြု

Full entry

honour (US honor) /'ɒnǝ(r)/ n

၁။ (က) [U] လေးစားမှု။ ဂုဏ်ပြုခြင်း။ the place/ seat of honour ❍ They stood in silence as a mark of honour to her. (ခ) [U,sing] ဂုဏ်ပြုခြင်း။ It is a great honour to be invited.
၂။ [U] (က) ရိုးဖြောင့်သောဂုဏ်။ ရိုးဂုဏ်။ a man of honour ❍ Honour demands that he should resign. See also DEBT OF HONOUR (ခ) ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာ။ fight for the honour of one's country ❍ The family honour is at stake.
၃။ [sing] an~to sth/ sb ဂုဏ်ယူဖွယ်ရာ။ She is an honour to her profession.
၄။ [C usu pl ] ဂုဏ်ပြုခြင်း။ bury sb with full military honours (ie with a special military ceremony) ❍ the Birthday/ New Year Honours list (ie the list of awards, titles, etc given in Britain by the King or Queen on his or her birthday or on 1 January each year).
၅။ honours [pl] ဂုဏ်ထူး(ဒီဂရီ၊ ဘွဲ့)။ gain an honours degree in French ❍ graduate with first-class honours in physics. See also HONS
၆။ your/ his/ her Honour [sing] (လေးစားမှုပြရာတွင်သုံးသောစကား)။ လေးစား အပ်ပါသော…။ I plead not guilty, your Honour.
၇။ [C esp pl ] (ဖဲကစားရာတွင်) ကြေးထိုက်သည့်ဖဲချပ်မျိုး။ ပိုက်ဆံဖဲ ။
v
၁။ (က) ဂုဏ်ပြုသည် (သို့) ဂုဏ်ယူသည်။ I feel highly honoured to be invited. ❍ The President honoured us with a personal visit. (ခ) ~ sb (with sth) (for sth) ဂုဏ်ပြုသည်။ Large crowds turned out to honour the winning team. ❍ He was honoured with an award for his services to the country.
၂။ ကတိတည်သည် (သို့) လိုက်နာသည်၊ စောင့်ထိန်းသည်။ I have every intention of honouring our contract.
၃။ (ငွေ) ပေးချေသည်၊ ထုတ်ပေး သည်။ honour a cheque.
❏ do sb an honour, do sb the honour (of doing sth) [IDM ] (fml ) ချီးမြှင့်သည်။ ဂုဏ်ပြုသည်။ You do us a great honour by attending. ❍ Will you do me the honour of dining with me?
❏ do the honours [IDM ] (infml ) ကြွရောက်၊ ဂုဏ်ပြု၊ ချီးမြှင့်သည်။ The local school has asked me to do the honours on prize-giving day.
❏ have the honour (of sth/ doing sth) [IDM ] (fml ) အခွင့်ထူးရရှိသည်။ May I have the honour of the next dance ? ❍ To whom do I have the honour of speaking ?
❏ (there is ) honour among thieves [IDM ] (saying ) သူခိုးမှာလည်းသူခိုးသိက္ခာနှင့်။
❏ (in) honour bound (to do sth) [IDM ] ကျင့်ဝတ်သိက္ခာ အရ။ I feel honour bound to attend because I said I would.
❏ honours are even [IDM ] သရေကျသည်။
❏ in honour of sb/ sth; in sb's / sth 's honour [IDM ] …အား ဂုဏ်ပြုသည့်အနေဖြင့်။ a ceremony in honour of those killed in the explosion ❍ When she retired after 50 years with the company, a dinner was held in her honour.
❏ on my honour [IDM ] ကျွန်တော်သစ္စာဆိုပါတယ်၊ ကျိန်ပါ တယ်။ (ဘုရားစူးရစေရဲ့… စသည်ကဲ့သို့)။ I promise I'll pay you back, on my honour.

More examples

Shame and honour were what motivated people.
[honour of] : They were prepared to die for the honour of their country.
It’s no longer just a legal issue, it’s a matter of honour.
A man of honour (=someone who always behaves in a morally correct way)
[be an honour] : Being asked to perform at La Scala is an honour for any singer.
[be an honour to do something] : It’s a great honour to be here with you tonight.
Twenty children received honours for bravery.
[top/highest honours] : The town has taken the top honours in the ‘Britain in Bloom’ competition for the second year running.
John Tucker was made an OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours.

Synonyms

acclaim, accolade, account, admiration, admire, adoration, adore, adulation, aggrandisement, aggrandize, apotheosis, appreciate, approbation, attention, award, badge, bays, be faithful, be true, blue ribbon, canonization, carry out, celebrate, celebration, certificate, character, chastity, commemorate, commemoration, commend, commendation, compliment, confidence, consideration, courage, credit, decency, decorate, decoration, decorum, deference, degree, deification, devotion, dignify, dignity, distinction, distinguish, elevation, ennoble, erect, esteem, exalt, exaltation, fairness, faith, fame, favour, fealty, fulfil, give glad hand, give key to city, glorification, glorify, glory, gold medal, good name, goodness, graciousness, greatness, hallow, high standing, high-water mark, homage, honestness, honesty, image, immortalization, incorruption, incorruptness, innocence, integrity, keep, kudos, laud, laurel, laurels, lionisation, lionise, live up to, look up to, magnify, medal, medallion, milestone, modesty, morality, morals, name, nobility, noter, notice, obeisance, observe, occasion, opportunity, pay homage to, pay tribute to, peak, pleasure, popularity, praise, pre-eminence, prestige, pride, principle, principles, privilege, prize, probity, purity, rank, recognise, recognition, rectitude, regard, remembrance, renown, reputation, repute, respect, revere, reverence, righteousness, roll out red carpet, sanctify, scrupulousness, source of pride, stick to, sublime, take your hat off to, toast, tribute, trust, trustworthiness, truthfulness, uprear, uprightness, value, venerate, veneration, virtue, worship, wreath

Antonyms

baseness, belittle, betray, blame, blemish, blot, break, castigate, censure, condemn, condemnation, criticise, criticism, debase, debasement, degradation, degrade, denounce, denunciation, depression, derision, despise, disapproval, disbelief, disclaimer, disdain, disgrace, dishonesty, dishonour, dislike, disobedience, disparage, disregard, disrespect, distrust, doubt, evil, forget, hate, heedlessness, humiliate, humiliation, ignorance, ignore, ill repute, immorality, impurity, indecency, insult, lower, lowliness, mock, neglect, overlook, reproach, scorn, shame, stigma, unimportance

Cross references

acclaim accolade account admiration admire adoration adore adulation aggrandisement aggrandize apotheosis appreciate approbation attention award badge bays be faithful be true blue ribbon canonization carry out celebrate celebration certificate character chastity commemorate

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