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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
honorary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an honorary member (=one who has been given membership as an honour)
▪ He was made an honorary member of the Botanical Society.
honorary membership (=having been given membership as an honor)
▪ His work won him honorary membership of the London Medical Society.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
chairman
▪ In recognition of his outstanding service, Berndt Schultz was made honorary chairman.
▪ He is the son of its founder and honorary chairman Chung Ju Yung.
▪ He was also an enthusiastic sportsman, and was recently appointed an honorary chairman of Selkirk Cricket Club.
degree
▪ After receiving an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters, she delivered her speech in a mature and confident manner.
▪ Awards: Erma Bombeck holds 15 honorary degrees.
▪ From 1969 it was awarding honorary degrees.
▪ He has long since withdrawn his name from Who's Who, declines to accept honorary degrees and refuses to be interviewed.
▪ The universities of Manchester, St Andrews, and Cambridge awarded him honorary degrees in 1919.
▪ His acceptance of an honorary degree from the anti-Catholic Bob Jones University in 1999 continues to stir controversy.
▪ He was awarded honorary degrees by Algiers, Glasgow and Oxford.
doctorate
▪ Elizabeth visited Ivy not long after the University of Leeds had given her an honorary doctorate, in May 1960.
▪ In addition to seeking goodwill and international business links, Brown will receive an honorary doctorate from Seoul University.
▪ In December, she was awarded an honorary doctorate.
▪ And the Corcoran School of Art has awarded him an honorary doctorate.
fellow
▪ From 1951 to 1953 he was president of the Royal Meteorological Society, which made him an honorary fellow in 1976.
member
▪ In 1872 he was elected a life honorary member of the Manchester Association of Engineers.
▪ Soon after his arrival, Luks was elected an honorary member of the Boston Art Club.
▪ Mr Ball expressed concern about likely members and honorary members, with many proxy votes.
▪ When Hanmer retired from his duties, the club made him an honorary member, and he lunches there weekly.
▪ Before Abbotsfield, he had been to all intents and purposes an honorary member of the Molland family.
▪ I had my own club, the New Club, where I was an honorary member.
▪ Hope, who was an honorary member of the Institute, restated the views expressed in the Memorials.
▪ A handful of professionals are admitted as honorary members.
president
▪ He became honorary president of the region's truffle farmers' union.
▪ It was a great honor; she would serve with Commander Richard Byrd, honorary president.
▪ He's also an honorary President of his home team, Stoke.
▪ Now he heads an organization of which she is honorary president.
▪ A perky Starostin shared in much of the pleasure: he was Spartak's honorary president when he died.
secretary
▪ A cheque for that amount in pounds was later presented to Captain Shearer, honorary secretary of Eastbourne lifeboat.
▪ And she is honorary secretary of the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors, which also tackles live issues in the area.
▪ Rawnsley, honorary secretary until his death, oversaw the acquisition of large areas of countryside.
▪ She was honorary secretary of the Schoolmistresses' Association and in 1867 its president.
▪ She joined the Women's Social and Political Union and became its joint honorary secretary.
▪ She served as its honorary secretary and then as chairman.
▪ He was president of the county in 1964 and 1965 and was honorary secretary for 26 years until his death.
▪ Club honorary secretary Chris Mountain said that it was the best start to a season he had seen the team make.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Montalban is the commission's honorary chairman.
▪ She was made an honorary citizen of Oklahoma that year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A keen music lover he was also honorary general secretary of the Darlington Music Festival which finished at the weekend.
▪ A perky Starostin shared in much of the pleasure: he was Spartak's honorary president when he died.
▪ He's also an honorary President of his home team, Stoke.
▪ He had a distinguished war record and on demobilisation in 1945 he became an honorary colonel, Army Medical Service.
▪ In future Presidents were purely honorary.
▪ It was a great honor; she would serve with Commander Richard Byrd, honorary president.
▪ We refer to them affectionately as the honorary founders of the club.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Honorary

Honorary \Hon"or*a*ry\, a. [L. honorarius, fr. honor honor: cf. F. honoraire.]

  1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services.
    --Macaulay.

  2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. ``Honorary arches.''
    --Addison.

  3. Holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society.

Honorary

Honorarium \Hon`o*ra"ri*um\, Honorary \Hon"or*a*ry\, n. [L. honorarium (sc. donum), fr. honorarius. See Honorary, a.]

  1. A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars.
    --S. Longfellow.

  2. (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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
honorary

early 17c., from honor + -ary; possibly influenced by French honoraire, Latin honorarius "pertaining to honor, honorary."

Wiktionary
honorary

a. 1 Given as an honor/honour, with no duties attached, and without payment. 2 voluntary#English. 3 (non-gloss definition: Describes the holder of a position or title that is assigned to him as a special honor rather than by normal channels.) n. 1 An honorarium; a fee for services of no fixed value. 2 (cx US English) A kind of secret society that operates in name only, with membership given to honor some achievement.

WordNet
honorary

adj. given as an honor without the normal duties; "an honorary degree"

Wikipedia
Honorary

An honorary position is given as an honor, with no duties attached, and without payment. Other uses include:

  • Honorary Aryan, a status in Nazi Germany
  • Honorary Academy Award, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, United States
  • Honorary authorship, listing of uninvolved people as co-authors of research papers
  • Honorary César, awarded by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema, France
  • Honorary consul, an unpaid part-time diplomatic consul
  • Honorary Goya Award, by the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España, Spain
  • Honorary Police, unpaid police force in Jersey
  • Honorary Prelate, a title used in the Catholic Church
  • Honorary society (disambiguation), whose members are elected for meritorious conduct
  • honorary title, awarded as a mark of distinction
    • Honorary citizenship, awarded to aliens who have rendered service to the state
    • Honorary degree, academic degree awarded to someone not formally qualified to receive it
  • Honorary trust, a trust with neither a charitable purpose, nor a private beneficiary
  • Honorary whites, a term that was used by the apartheid regime of South Africa

Usage examples of "honorary".

By that trick, we ceased being two bipedal strangers and became a single honorary hadrosaur.

He was given an honorary degree of the university of Oxford in 1886, and in 1888 a statue of him was erected at Birmingham.

In short, these gentlemen gave me the most distinguished reception, and I had the fortune to make myself so agreeable to them that I was unanimously chosen an honorary member during the time I should stay at Amsterdam.

This might be so, but if Poland had possessed far-seeing statesmen they would have guessed that an honorary title would end in the usurpation of the whole country.

But for the past year, thanks to a fund- organized by the Society for Public Improvement, of which Juvenal Urbino was honorary president, there was a corps of professional firemen and a water truck with a siren and a bell and two high-pressure hoses.

Sir Walter Scott was an honorary member, as was Robert Louis Stephenson, and Captain Lawrie of Krakatoa fame.

Mona, we never needed a war leader, and it seemed quite in order to give Magg the honorary title.

Gulam Nohiuddin has resigned his Honorary Magistrateship, I hope that both these patriots will not consider that they have done their last duty by their acts of renunciation, but I hope they will regard their acts as a prelude to acts of greater purpose and greater energy and I hope they will take in hand the work of educating the electorate in their districts regarding boycott of councils.

Fox further objected, that the legislative councils were unlimited as to numbers by any other restriction than the pleasure of the king, to whom a power was reserved of annexing to certain honorary and titular distinctions an hereditary right of sitting in council.

Conditions and Situations discussed over and over and over and over and-- Of organizators and philanthrobbers and propheteers and directors and executive secretaries and executive directors and managing directors and the honorary chairmen and the sponsors and the trustees and the board of advisers and national headquarters and Chicago headquarters and local units and appeals to the press to give publicity to the unexampled needs of this great cause and you ought to be able to get this picture of Miss Viv de Vere, in bathing suit and holding a coin box, into the rotogravure sections and maybe get five minutes on Station WSOB and photographs and Dr.

Somewhat later, with some knowledge of his views, he was asked to hold an honorary relation to the Vivisection Reform Society.

He also made a little joke that the Burgomaster had caught up with his own rank and he thought he should now turn the tables upon him by becoming honorary Burgomaster.

And although I was an only child, I have a semblance of family life, through my cousin Eddie, the oldest son of my Aunt Hen and Uncle Moosh, who has always treated me as an honorary sib.

He arrays himself in court dress at the palaces of kings, receives honorary degrees at Universities, and is kept before the public by the newspaper paragraphist, without wincing or pretending to dislike it.

Her Royal Highness Bronwyn Amber-wine Magdalena Rowan, Crown Princess of Argonia, Prince Jacopo Worthyman, scion of a nomadic subculture and in indirect line for the throne of Ablemarle, and the Honorable Lady Carole Maud Songsmith Brown, daughter of Magdalene, Honorary Princess of Argonia, and the Earl of Wormroost.