right honourable

right honourable

See also: Right Honourable

English

Alternative forms

• Right Honourable
• right honorable, Right Honorable

Adjective

right honourable (not comparable)

1. A courtesy title applied to a peer below the rank of marquess.
2. A courtesy title applied to a privy counsellor, to the lord mayor of various cities, governor general, and to the prime minister of certain Commonwealth countries.
   • 1906, FE Smith, maiden speech to House of Commons, 12 Mar 1906:

     I have in honourable and right honourable gentlemen opposite an admirable example of how to cut the painter of a similar league, with the maximum of political advancement, and the minimum of fidelity to a founder.

Derived terms

• Right Hon.
• Rt. Hon.

Related terms

• honourable

Translations

politics

Dutch: hoogedelgestreng (nl) French: très honorable