0 past simple and past participle of honour
1 to show great respect for someone or something, especially in public:
2 to give someone public praise or a reward:
He was honoured with a knighthood.
Children need to be taught to honour other people's opinions.
The press nowadays seems incapable of honouring anyone's privacy.
There actually is a rule about not blocking the front entrance, but no one honours it.
The fund was set up to honour the memory of Joe's grandmother, a tireless social campaigner.
While many countries have provisions in their family law legislation requiring courts to listen to the voices of children, few have actually honoured them.
He says he was surrounded by people who honoured him, and who came to his house to seek information and advice on scholarly matters.
Such unions will need to be more commonplace if the human body is to be properly honoured in the architecture of the future.
