Privilege vs. Honor — What's the Difference?

A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group

High respect, as that shown for special merit; recognition or esteem

Grant a privilege or privileges to

Great privilege

A special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste.

Good name; reputation

Such an advantage, immunity, or right held as a prerogative of status or rank, and exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others.

A source or cause of credit

The principle of granting and maintaining a special right or immunity

A mark, token, or gesture of respect or distinction, such as a military decoration.

Protection from being forced to disclose confidential communications in certain relationships, as between attorney and client, physician and patient, or priest and confessor.

Public acts or ceremonies showing respect

Protection from being sued for libel or slander for making otherwise actionable statements in a context or forum where open and candid expression is deemed desirable for reasons of public policy.

Special recognition for unusual academic achievement

An option to buy or sell a stock, including put, call, spread, and straddle.

A program of advanced study for exceptional students

To grant a privilege to.

Social courtesies offered to guests

To free or exempt.

High rank

To assign greater importance or priority to

Honor Used with His, Her, or Your as a title and form of address for certain officials, such as judges and the mayors of certain cities

An exemption from certain laws granted by the Pope.

A sense of principled uprightness of character; personal integrity

(countable) A particular benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity enjoyed by some but not others; a prerogative, preferential treatment.

A code of integrity, dignity, and pride, chiefly among men, that was maintained in some societies, as in feudal Europe, by force of arms.

An especially rare or fortunate opportunity; the good fortune (to do something).

A woman's chastity or reputation for chastity.

(uncountable) The fact of being privileged; the status or existence of (now especially social or economic) benefit or advantage within a given society.

(Sports) The right of being first at the tee in golf.

A right or immunity enjoyed by a legislative body or its members.

Any of the four or five highest cards, especially the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten of the trump suit, in card games such as bridge or whist.

A stock market option.

Often honors The points allotted to these cards.

(legal) A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.

To hold in respect; esteem

(computing) An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to users.

To show respect for

(archaic) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize

To confer distinction on

(archaic) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.

To bow to (another dancer) in square dancing

A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.

To accept or pay as valid

See Call, Put, Spread, etc.

(uncountable) recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful

To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.

(uncountable) the state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity

To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.

(countable) a token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen

A special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all

A privilege

A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right);

(in the plural) the privilege of going first

(law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship

(golf) the right to play one's ball before one's opponent.

Bestow a privilege upon

A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.

(feudal law) a seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended

In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.

(in the plural) (courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank

(transitive) to think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of

(transitive) to conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like)

(transitive) to confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone)

(transitive) to make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft, etc.)

Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence.

That which rightfully attracts esteem, respect, or consideration; self-respect; dignity; courage; fidelity; especially, excellence of character; high moral worth; virtue; nobleness.

Purity; chastity; - a term applied mostly to women, but becoming uncommon in usage.

A nice sense of what is right, just, and true, with course of life correspondent thereto; strict conformity to the duty imposed by conscience, position, or privilege; integrity; uprightness; trustworthness.

That to which esteem or consideration is paid; distinguished position; high rank.

Fame; reputation; credit.

A token of esteem paid to worth; a mark of respect; a ceremonial sign of consideration; as, he wore an honor on his breast; military honors; civil honors.

A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament; as, he is an honor to his nation.

A title applied to the holders of certain honorable civil offices, or to persons of rank; as, His Honor the Mayor. See Note under Honorable.

A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.

Academic or university prizes or distinctions; as, honors in classics.

The ace, king, queen, and jack of trumps. The ten and nine are sometimes called Dutch honors.

To regard or treat with honor, esteem, or respect; to revere; to treat with deference and submission; when used of the Supreme Being, to reverence; to adore; to worship.

To dignify; to raise to distinction or notice; to bestow honor upon; to elevate in rank or station; to ennoble; to exalt; to glorify; hence, to do something to honor; to treat in a complimentary manner or with civility.

To accept and pay when due; as, to honora bill of exchange.

A tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction;

The state of being honored

The quality of being honorable and having a good name;

A woman's virtue or chastity

Bestow honor or rewards upon;

Show respect towards;

Accept as pay;