Difference between Laureate and Honorable

What is the difference between Laureate and Honorable?

Laureate as an adjective is crowned, or decked, with laurel - geoffrey chaucer while Honorable as an adjective is worthy of respect; respectable.

Laureate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Crowned, or decked, with laurel - Geoffrey Chaucer

Part of speech: noun

Definition: One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate A graduate of a university

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.

Example sentence: When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.

Honorable

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Worthy of respect; respectable.

Example sentence: I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

We hope you now know whether to use Laureate or Honorable in your sentence.

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