The Stephensons had the dubious honor of being the 100th family to lose their home in the fire.honorhon‧or /ˈɒnə $ ˈɑːnər/ noun [countable, uncountable] 
WORD ORIGINhonor
Origin:
1100-1200 Old French, LatinEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a soldier's honor
- He's won an Academy Award and a host of other honors.
- Winning tomorrow's game is a matter of national honor.
- Congress did make feeble attempts to regain its honor.
- Dole himself, his voice cracking, can barely get through his words: This is a great honor for Bob Dole.
- May we bring honor to his name.
- On the parlor floor, I found what I was looking for in a place of honor over the living-room fireplace.
- Still, he had lain upon her knees and slept in her arms and therefore he should have honor throughout his life.
- They were not only demeaning their own masculine code of honor, but that of others.
- Unfortunately, it is difficult to give the Pittsburgh Steelers that honor.
- Yet none has ever been given that honor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The Stephensons had the dubious honor of being the 100th family to lose their home in the fire. I was treated like an honored guest.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
the American spelling of honour The Stephensons had the dubious honor of being the 100th family to lose their home in the fire. I was treated like an honored guest.· Dole himself, his voice cracking, can barely get through his words: This is a great honor for Bob Dole.· It was the greatest honor, other than getting accepted in heaven.
· The highest public honor our democracy can bestow will never go begging in a country full of ambitious over-achievers.· Hopis painted Ruess and allowed him to participate in their traditional Antelope Dance, a high honor.
· These five women made no bones about national honor or scientific achievement.
NOUN· The idea of the honor guard was quietly put aside.· Then an honor guard of off-duty cops would escort him into the hall.· The inhabitants of a village would usually accompany the marchers to the next, as a sort of honor guard.· Clinton clenched his jaw and stood silently beside the coffin as an honor guard handed him the folded flag.· They walked slowly, led by the bagpipers, past an honor guard of law enforcement officers standing stiffly at attention.
· That semester, the student made the honor roll for the first time.· Personal: An honor roll student with a 3.57 grade-point average last marking period.
· He was an honor student and student body president.· He was an honor student in his final two years of high school.
· In the past, an honor system prevented this contagion of broken trust.
VERB· In accepting the honor, Nicklaus knelt before a vice chancellor of the university, a man named Watson.· It is painful to accept, your honor.
· He killed a man, while defending his honor and is willing to risk killing another.· Jacinto killed one man while defending his honor and now plans to take the life of the Colonel.· Juan has been traveling in state of disguise because many years earlier, while defending his honor, he killed man.
· The women and children especially found him friendly and did him the honor of welcoming him to their great pumpkin feast.· The duck was roasted just right and seasoned perfectly, and the accompanying tastes only did it honor.
· Yet none has ever been given that honor.· They were scullions who only gave glory, honor, and dominion to whites.· In the evening Mabel attended a reception given in her honor by the Knights of Columbus.· But some panel members, including Turner, considered giving the honor concept back to the administration.· Not just be-cause they are good business, but because they give honor to our Creator.
· The museum was named in honor of her grandfather, Chicago industrialist Charles Hosmer Morse.· His longtime sailboat, named Apogee in honor of his lunar Apollo flight, is for sale.· C., was later named in his honor.· Teyechea now has a lush park next to Nogales City Hall named in his honor.