- doing or conferring honor.
- conveying honor, as a title or a grammatical form used in speaking to or about a superior, elder, etc.
- (in certain languages, as Chinese and Japanese) a class of forms used to show respect, especially in direct address.
- a title or term of respect.
- showing or conferring honour or respect
- (of a pronoun, verb inflection, etc) indicating the speaker's respect for the addressee or his acknowledgment of inferior status
- (as noun)
