Honorific

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Honorific \Hon`or*if"ic\, a. [See {Honor}, {-fy}, and {-ic}.]
     Conferring honor; tending to honor. --London Spectator.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  honorific
       adj : conferring or showing honor or respect; "honorific social
             status commonly attaches to membership in a recognized
             profession"
       n : an expression of respect; "the Japanese use many honorifics"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  60 Moby Thesaurus words for "honorific":
     appellation, appellative, attentive, binomen, binomial name,
     byname, byword, cap in hand, ceremonious, cognomen, cognominal,
     courteous, cryptonym, deferential, denomination, designation,
     diminutive, dutiful, empty title, epithet, epithetic, eponym,
     euonym, formal, handle, honor, honorable, honorary, hypocoristic,
     hyponym, in name only, label, moniker, name, namesake, nomen,
     nomen nudum, nominal, nominative, proper name, proper noun, quasi,
     regardful, respectful, scientific name, secret name, self-called,
     self-christened, self-styled, so-called, soi-disant, style, tag,
     tautonym, title, titular, titulary, trinomen, trinomial name,
     would-be