honorable

Etymology

From Middle English honourable, from Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin honōrābilis, from honōrō (“I honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. Surface analysis is honor + -able.

adj

  1. Worthy of respect; respectable.
  2. (politics) A courtesy title, given in Britain and the Commonwealth to a cabinet minister, minister of state, or senator, and in the United States to the president, vice president, congresspeople, state governors and legislators, and mayors.

noun

  1. A politician or other person who bears the title of "honorable".
    These included a reception for the Congress participants, given by the city of Barcelona in a 14th century palace, with guards making room for the mayor and other honorables, […] 1959, American Journal of Psychotherapy, volume 13, page 111

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