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Definition of HONORARY

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.
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.

Meaning of HONORARY from wikipedia

- Look up honorary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An honorary position is one given as an honor, with no duties attached, and without payment. Other...
- An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is...
- Commonwealth realms outside the UK continue to make appointments to the order. Honorary awards may be made to citizens of other nations of which the order's sovereign...
- The Academy Honorary Awardinstituted in 1950 for the 23rd Academy Awards (previously called the Special Award, which was first presented at the 1st...
- involved in the recommendation of appointments, other than for military and honorary awards. The King of Australia is the sovereign head of the order, and the...
- Honorary Aryan (German: Ehrenarier) was a semi-official category and expression used in **** Germany and its territories to justify certain individuals...
- Many people have been created honorary knights or dames by the British crown. There are also those that have been appointed to two comparable orders, the...
- The Robert Honorary Award (Danish: Æres-Robert, Honorary Robert) has been given occasionally since 1986 as one of the Robert Awards (Danish: Robert prisen)...
- Examples of such titles are Honorary Professor, Honorary Fellow, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Honorary Reader, Honorary Lecturer (normally applies...
- of exceptional merit, a non-United States citizen, may be declared an honorary citizen of the United States by an Act of Congress or by a proclamation...