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honoree

[ on-uh-ree ]

noun

  1. a person who receives an honor, award, or special recognition.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of honoree1

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Example Sentences

Instead, tributes to honorees will be performed in multiple, smaller settings on the campus — including outdoors on the front plaza and inside the Grand Foyer and the Reach — and the producers will stitch them together for television.

The honorees, interviewed by phone and Zoom on Tuesday, are mostly shrugging off the uncertainties.

The sole exception may be birthdays, but even those can be initiated by the honoree if they are in regards to receiving a card or present.

It’s not just the honorees themselves that are pulling advertisers, Sibley said.

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Of the list, nearly half of the honorees identify as a person of color, while 40% are women.

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“Thank you Hillary, for reminding me to step forward,” said another honoree, Iranian-born socialite Nazee Moinian.

Fruitvale Station is a surprise honoree alongside Gravity, 12 Years a Slave, and Captain Phillips.

Last year, Rivers threw herself to the comedic wolves and allowed herself to be the honoree of a Comedy Central roast.

Dugard accepted the award from fellow honoree Oprah Winfrey.

Another honoree traveled from the South Kivu region of the Democratic of the Congo.

Her brother-in-law saw her one afternoon entering Saint-Honoree d'Eylau.

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More About Honoree

What is an honoree?

An honoree is a person who receives some type of honor or award, often during a special event. 

To be honored is to be held in high respect by others. If you are an honoree, you are receiving recognition for something you’ve done that’s seen as exceptional or outstanding. At a graduation party held to celebrate your graduation from school, you would be the honoree. At a dinner held to celebrate a businessperson who donated a large sum of money to a charity, the businessperson is the honoree.  

At award shows like the Academy Awards, people who receive the awards are the honorees. Honorees are any group of people who are being celebrated for their accomplishments or behavior.

Example: At this time, I ask that tonight’s honorees please stand up.

Where does honoree come from?

The first records of the term honoree come from around the 1890s. It combines the term honor, meaning “to hold in high respect,” and the suffix -ee, which denotes a person receiving the action of a verb. An honoree is someone who is honored or who receives an honor.

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How is honoree used in real life?

Honoree is used to describe someone who is being specially recognized for something, usually at an event.

 

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Is honoree used correctly in the following sentence?

“Juanita was the honoree at this year’s banquet because of her work on the company’s new line of products.”

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