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Honor

proper nounproper nountop 1 000 in film dialogue

A female given name from English.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from English.

    They had named the baby Honor because Eugenie had been moved by Honoré de Balzac's Le Père Goriot in her French class.

  2. 2

    A surname.

Etymology

Shortened from Honoria and Honora; later also interpreted as a virtue name by Puritans.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Former name of Honnavar (“Indian town”).

Forms

plural
Honors
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).