honorary
honorary is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(Law) An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price. Heumann.
- 2.Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay.
- 3.Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison.
- 4.Holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- admission
- and
- bargain
- bon
- buy
- catchpenny
- charge
- cheap
- cheapness
- come
- cost
- costless
- deadhead
- depreciation
- dirt
- dog
- down
- drug
- expense
- expenseless
- fall
- for
- free
- good
- gratis
- gratuitous
- gratuity
- have
- inexpensive
- labor
- little
- love
- low
- market
- mere
- moderate
- money
- nasty
- nominal
- not
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is honorary.
- What is an honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price. Heumann called?
- What is done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay called?
- What is conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison called?
- What is holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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