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honoree

[ on-uh-ree ]

noun

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


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Trump’s interest in the center’s annual honors dates back to his first term in office when several honorees, including Norman Lear, said they would boycott the event if Trump were to attend.

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This year’s honoree was British actor and “Willow†star Warwick Davis.

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In 2017, he and First Lady Melania Trump skipped that year’s Kennedy Center Honors after being criticized by honorees, marking only the fourth time in the organization’s history that a president was not in attendance.

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The 19 honorees will bring President Biden’s total number of Presidential Medals of Freedom awarded to 56.

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In addition to Cheney and Thompson, 18 other honorees were recognized at the Thursday ceremony, including a military doctor who improved battlefield trauma care and a civil rights leader who fought for desegregation.

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What is anÌýhonoree?

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

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.ÌýÌý

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 doesÌý³ó´Ç²Ô´Ç°ù±ð±ðÌýcome from?

The first records of the term honoree come from around the 1890s. It combines the term honor,Ìýmeaning “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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What are some words that share a root or word element with honoree?Ìý

What are some words that often get used in discussing honoree?

How isÌý³ó´Ç²Ô´Ç°ù±ð±ðÌýused 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.â€

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