honorific

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Also in some countries, the honorific is used with the first name in regular speech.

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  1. adjective Conferring or showing respect or honor.
  2. noun A title, phrase, or grammatical form conveying respect, used especially when addressing a social superior.

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  • She nodded Ch'tpok's way, using a Riirgaan honorific: "Hello again, Learned One." —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 01 - July 2003
  • He'd had nightmares during training about this particular honorific, terrified that he would forget himself and go instead into a normal Pax-style handshake. —  Angelmass
  • O kú òsán Yoruba (West Africa) [evening non-honorific] O kú ìròle Yoruba (West Africa) [night / before midnight] O kú alé Yoruba (West Africa) [night / after midnight] O kú áísún Yucateco (Mexico) [to one person] Biix a beel? —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • An honorific is what people call you when they respect you, and the moment Mister Rogers got out of the car, people wouldn't stay away from him, they respected him so much. —  Mandy Stadtmiller dot com
  • Also in some countries, the honorific is used with the first name in regular speech. —  Planet Atheism
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  1. Latin honōrificus : honor, honōr-, honor + -ficus, -fic.

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  1. = French honorifique = Spanish Portuguese honorifico = Italian onorifico, from Latin honorificus, that does honor, honorable, from honor, honor, + -ficus, from facere, do, make.
 

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/ɑnəˈrɪfɪk/
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