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honoured

honoured

English

Alternative forms

honored (mainly US)

Adjective

honoured ‎(comparative more honoured, superlative most honoured)

Respected, having received honour.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 229e.
  One of them is the time-honoured method of our forefathers

Translations

respected, having received honour

Chinese:
Mandarin: 榮幸 (zh), 荣幸 (zh) ‎(róngxìng)
Faroese: æruríkur
Finnish: kunnioitettu (fi); kunnioittama (respected by); kunnia (fi) (noun, check usage at fi entry), kunnioitettava (fi), kunnianarvoinen, arvoisa (fi)
French: honoré (fr)

German: geehrt (de)
Irish: clúiteach
Japanese: 光栄に思って (ja) ‎(こうえいにおもって, kōei ni omotte)
Portuguese: honrado (pt) m
Russian: уважа́емый (ru) ‎(uvažájemyj), заслу́женный (ru) ‎(zaslúžennyj)

Verb

honoured

simple past tense and past participle of honour