English

Adjective

Honourable

1. Alternative form of honourable

Derived terms

• Right Honourable

English

Alternative forms

• (politics): Honourable

Adjective

honourable ‎(comparative more honourable, superlative most honourable)

1. (Britain, Canada) Alternative form of honorable
   • 1846, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2, page 474

     It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.

Derived terms

• (honorable): honourably

Adjective

honourable ‎(not comparable)

1. (Commonwealth of Nations, politics) A courtesy title applied to a cabinet minister, minister of state, or senator

Derived terms

• (politics): right honourable