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1. nouna. honneur m• in honour of... en l'honneur de...• to what do we owe this honour? qu'est-ce qui nous vaut cet honneur ?c. (title) Your/His Honour Votre/Son Honneurd. (British = degree) to take honours in English ≈ faire une licence d'anglais• he got first-/second-class honours in English ≈ il a eu sa licence d'anglais avec mention très bien/mention bienhonorer ; [+ agreement] respecter3. compounds• to be honour-bound to do sth être tenu par l'honneur de faire qch ► honours degree noun (British) ≈ licence f━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✎ The French word honneur has a double n.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Un honours degree est un diplôme universitaire que l'on reçoit généralement après trois années d'études en Angleterre et quatre années en Écosse. Les mentions qui l'accompagnent sont, par ordre décroissant: « first class » (très bien), « upper second class » (bien), « lower second class » (assez bien), et « third class » (sans mention). Le titulaire d'un honours degree peut l'indiquer ainsi à la suite de son nom: Peter Jones BA Hons. → ORDINARY DEGREE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━La Honours List est la liste des personnes proposées pour recevoir une distinction honorifique. Cette liste, établie par le Premier ministre et approuvée par le monarque, est publiée deux fois par an au moment de la nouvelle année ( New Year's Honours List) et de l'anniversaire de la reine en juin ( Queen's Birthday Honours List).* * *1.GB, honor US ['ɒnə(r)] noun1) ( privilege) honneur mto give somebody ou do somebody the honour of doing — faire à quelqu'un l'honneur de faire
to what do I owe this honour? — sout ou iron que me vaut cet honneur? sout ou iron
2) ( high principles) honneur mto impugn somebody's honour — sout mettre en doute l'honneur de quelqu'un
3) ( in titles)2.honours plural noun University3.first/second class honours — ≈ licence avec mention très bien/bien
transitive verb1) ( show respect for) honorerto feel/be honoured — se sentir/être honoré (by par)
to honour somebody by doing — sout faire l'honneur à quelqu'un de faire
2) (fulfil, be bound by) honorer [cheque, contract, obligation]; tenir [promise, commitment]; remplir [agreement]••to do the honours — (serve food, drinks) faire les honneurs; ( introduce guests) faire les présentations
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