Classified under: Nouns denoting people. Hypernyms (geologist is a kind of...): man of science; scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences).
The name Honora is of Irish origin. The meaning of Honora is honorable. Honora is generally used as a girl's name. It consists of 6 letters and 3 syllables and is pronounced Ho-no-ra.
Honor is also employed to signify integrity in a judge, courage in a soldier, and chastity in a woman. To deprive a woman of her honor is, in some cases, punished as a public wrong, and by an action for the recovery of damages done to the relative rights of a husband or a father. Vide Criminal conversation.