Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Held or given as a mark of honor, especially conferred as an honor without the usual adjuncts.
- adjective Holding an office or title given as an honor, without payment.
- adjective Voluntary.
- adjective Relying on honor and not legally enforceable, as a duty or obligation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Done or made in token of honor; honoring.
- Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor, without customary requirements or obligations: as, an honorary degree or title.
- Holding a title or place conferred as an honor.
- Synonyms and Honorary, Honorable. Honorary refers to that which exists or is done for the sake of conferring honor: as, an honorary degree, honorary membership; honorable, to that which is worthy of honor, confers honor, or is consistent with the sentiment of honor: as, an honorable man (in two senses); an honorable alliance; an honorable motive.
- noun Same as
honorarium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Done as a sign or evidence of honor.
- adjective Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument.
- adjective Holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Given as an
honor /honour , with noduties attached, and withoutpayment . - adjective
Voluntary . - adjective Describes the holder of a position or title that is assigned to him as a special honor rather than by normal channels.
- noun An
honorarium ; afee for services of no fixed value.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective given as an honor without the normal duties
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Examples
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To share his story, we have got a spokesman for the National Kidney Foundation, whose fund - raising efforts for earthquake victims in Guatemala earned him the title honorary mayor of Los Angeles, George Lopez.
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To share his story, we have got a spokesman for the National Kidney Foundation, whose fund - raising efforts for earthquake victims in Guatemala earned him the title honorary mayor of Los Angeles, George Lopez.
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But the daughter, although older, was never in the running for the title honorary though it may now be.
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Those Cuban cats became what I call honorary niggas.
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Those Cuban cats became what I call honorary niggas.
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Those Cuban cats became what I call honorary niggas.
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A renowned management guru who founded electronics maker Kyocera Corp. and telecom company KDDI Corp., he will take the title of honorary chairman for his final year at JAL, with Mr. Onishi becoming chairman.
On Approach to Relisting, JAL Taps New President Yoshio Takahashi 2012
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And I'm not entirely sure that the word honorary was the right place holder in paragraph two – so it doesn't necessarily have to be to Bobby or Castiel.
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When they sometimes give a degree like that in the university, isn't it called honorary?
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-- What does the word honorary mean but a sinecure?
A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father William Cooper
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