honorable mention
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A formal recognition given to a work or candidate of high merit that falls below the level of the main prizes or top honors in a competition, examination or award process.
Example Sentences
- "How good are DCGs from a linguistic perspective? Well, mixed. At one stage (in the early 1980s) they were pretty much state of the art. They made it possible to code complex grammars in a clear way, and to explore the interplay of syntactic and semantic ideas. Certainly any history of parsing in computational linguistics would give DCGs an honourable mention."