Usually means: Title or term showing respect.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word honorific:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. honorific: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. honorific: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. honorific: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. honorific: Collins English Dictionary
  5. honorific: Vocabulary.com
  6. honorific: Wordnik
  7. honorific: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. honorific: Wiktionary
  9. honorific: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. honorific: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. honorific: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Honorific, honorific: Dictionary.com
  13. Honorific: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Honorific: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. honorific: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. honorific: Rhymezone
  17. Honorific: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. honorific: Free Dictionary
  19. honorific: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. honorific: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. honorific: Legal dictionary

(Note: See honorifically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person's title, such as "Mrs" or "Doctor".
noun:  A term of respect; respectful language.
noun:  (linguistics) A word or word form expressing the speaker's respect for the hearer or the referent.
adjective:  Showing or conferring honour and respect.
adjective:  Based on or valuing honor

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