Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

your honor

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.68 in modern English

Syllables: your honor
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

pron

you

Formal; Obsolete

pron

you

American usage; Formal

pron

you (a form of address for a representative or senator in the Philippine Congress during hearings and inquiries, and for canvassers during the canvass of electoral results).

Formal

Example Sentences

"Touching the firſt, I refer my ſelf to your Honors favourable Opinion, and the Character which my Lord S. and others ſhall give of me: […]"
"The numbers of the French have been greatly magnified, as your Honor may see by a copy of the enclosed journal of a person, whom I sent out to gain intelligence."

Usage

Formal
Obsolete
American usage

Inflected Forms

Your Honour (alternative, UK)

Phrases

Your Honors

Questions

What does your honor mean?: you

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