Synonyms of the word

honour

• n. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, Australian, NZ, and South African standard spelling of honor.
• v. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, Australian, NZ, and South African standard spelling of honor.

accept

• v. (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
• v. (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.
• v. (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
• v. (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
• v. (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
• v. (transitive) To endure patiently.
• v. (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
• v. (transitive) To receive officially.
• v. (intransitive) To receive something willingly.
• adj. (obsolete) Accepted.

accolade

• n. An expression of approval; praise.
• n. A special acknowledgment; an award.
• n. An embrace of greeting or salutation.
• n. (historical) A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and…
• n. (music) A brace used to join two or more staves.
• n. (US, military) Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by personnel who died or were wounded…
• n. (architecture) An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its…
• v. (transitive) To embrace or kiss in salutation.
• v. (transitive, historical) To confer a knighthood on.
• v. (transitive) To confer praise or awards on.

award

• n. (law) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
• n. (law) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
• n. A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor…
• n. (obsolete) Care, keeping.
• n. (Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated minimum wage that is set for a particular trade or…
• v. (transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful…
• v. (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
• v. (transitive) to give an award (prize) for merit.

chastity

• n. The quality of being chaste: the state of abstaining from any sexual activity considered immoral; avoidance…

have

• v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
• v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
• v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to.
• v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
• v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
• v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
• v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
• v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
• v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
• v. To trick, to deceive.
• v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
• v. (transitive) To host someone.

honor

• n. (uncountable) Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally…
• n. (uncountable) The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence…
• n. (countable) A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such…
• n. A privilege.
• n. (in the plural) The privilege of going first.
• n. A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
• n. (feudal law) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.
• n. (heraldry, countable) The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon. (Compare honour point…
• n. (countable, card games) In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In…
• n. (in the plural) (Courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank.
• v. (transitive) To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or…
• v. (transitive) To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request,…
• v. (transitive) To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone).
• v. (transitive) To make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft etc).

laurels

• n. plural of laurel.
• n. Honors. From the Ancient Greek practice of crowning victors with a branch from the laurel bush, sacred…

observe

• v. (transitive) To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
• v. (transitive) To follow or obey the custom, practice, or rules (especially of a religion).
• v. (intransitive) To comment on something; to make an observation.

pureness

• n. The quality of being pure; purity.

purity

• n. The state or degree of being pure.

recognise

• v. (transitive) To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as worthy of consideration or…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge or consider as something.
• v. (transitive) To realise or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realise or admit that.
• v. (transitive) To give an award.

recognize

• v. (transitive) To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as valid or worthy of consideration.
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge or consider as something.
• v. (transitive) To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realize or admit that.
• v. (transitive) To give an award.
• v. To show appreciation of.
• v. (obsolete) To review; to examine again.
• v. (obsolete) To reconnoiter.
• v. (immunology) To have the property to bind to specific antigens.
• v. To cognize again.

respect

• n. (uncountable) an attitude of consideration or high regard.
• n. (uncountable) good opinion, honor, or admiration.
• n. (uncountable, always plural) Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death.
• n. (countable) a particular aspect of something.
• v. To have respect for.
• v. To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right.
• v. To abide by an agreement.
• v. To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed.
• v. (transitive, dated except in "respecting") To relate to; to be concerned with.
• v. (obsolete) To regard; to consider; to deem.
• v. (obsolete) To look toward; to face.
• interj. (Jamaica) hello, hi.

reward

• n. Something of value given in return for an act.
• n. A prize promised for a certain deed or catch.
• n. The result of an action, whether good or bad.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To give (something) as a reward.
• v. (transitive) To give a reward to or for.
• v. (transitive) To recompense.

righteousness

• n. (uncountable) The quality or state of being righteous; holiness; purity; uprightness; rectitude. Righteousness,…
• n. (countable) A righteous act, or righteous quality.
• n. The act or conduct of one who is righteous.
• n. (theology) The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification.

standing

• v. present participle of stand.
• adj. Erect, not cut down.
• adj. Performed from an erect position.
• adj. Remaining in force or status.
• adj. Stagnant; not moving or flowing.
• adj. Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting.
• adj. Not movable; fixed.
• n. Position or reputation in society or a profession.
• n. Duration.
• n. The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.
• n. (sports) The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list.
• n. (Britain) room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles.
• n. (law) The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the…

symbol

• n. A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
• n. Any object, typically material, which is meant to represent another (usually abstract) even if there is…
• n. (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context;…
• n. A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith.
• n. Visible traces or impressions, made using a writing device or tool, that are connected together and/or…
• n. (crystallography) The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes.
• n. That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.
• n. Share; allotment.
• v. To symbolize.

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

virtue

• n. (obsolete) The inherent power of a god, or other supernatural being.
• n. The inherent power or efficacy of something (now only in phrases).
• n. (uncountable) Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures…
• n. A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality.
• n. Specifically, each of several qualities held to be particularly important, including the four cardinal…
• n. An inherently advantageous or excellent quality of something or someone; a favourable point, an advantage.
• n. A creature embodying divine power, specifically one of the orders of heavenly beings, traditionally ranked…
• n. (uncountable) Specifically, moral conduct in sexual behaviour, especially of women; chastity.