noun
definition
(used only to address someone) Honey, sweetheart, a term of endearment; a friendly term of address.
Examples of hon in a Sentence
Hon, this is important.
Hon, call Dr. Williams immediately.
The council consisted of General Clavering and the Hon.
Hon, the difference between you and the rest of us is that you see the keypads as a threat.
Since 1860 several visits have been paid to the group by scientific investigators - by Dr Habel in 1868; Messrs Baur and Adams, and the naturalists of the "Albatross," between 1888 and 1891; and in 1897-1898 by Mr Charles Harris, whose journey was specially undertaken at the instance of the Hon.
Amongst the more important explorations may be ranked those of Tietkins in 1889, of Lindsay in 1891, of Wells in 1896, of Hiibbe in 1896, and of the Hon.
One of the most successful expeditions which traversed Western Australia was that led and equipped by the Hon.
A member of all the chief archaeological societies in Europe, he was given hon.
Lord Balfour, who received hon.
One of Maxwell's last great contributions to science was the editing (with copious original notes) of the Electrical Researches of the Hon.
On the 15th of July 1815 he married Harriet, daughter of the Hon.
The earldom, and the viscounty of the United Kingdom, being limited to heirs male, became extinct, but the barony, being to heirs general, passed to his daughter, Sophia Charlotte (1762-1835), who married the Hon.
The present town of Milford Haven, originally a hamlet in the parish of Steynton, is of modern growth, and was first called into existence by the exertions of the Hon.
After 1655 he was employed and patronized by the Hon.
In 1830 he was made royal professor, in 1834 Hon.
The Grenville Papers, being the Correspondence of Richard Grenville, Earl Temple, K.G., and the Right Hon.
These collections, especially rich in Raeburn's works, include also Alexander Nasmyth's portrait of Robert Burns, Gainsborough's ",The Hon.
In the same year he spoke for Lord Melbourne in the action (thought by some to be a political conspiracy 3) which the Hon.
In 1807 he was attached to the Hon.
The people bore their troubles heroically, and Henry Oldenburg, writing to the Hon.
William was adopted by the Hon.
He was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and received hon.
His first wife was his cousin, Miss Isabella Clark, who died in 1858, leaving one surviving son, the Hon.
In the following year she was Lady Wealthy in the Hon.
He was awarded the Lyell medal by the Geological Society in 1876, and was made Hon.
The eldest, Lawrence Parsons, 4th earl of Rosse, and Baron Oxmantown, born on the 17th of November 1840, succeeded to the title on his father's death, and made many investigations on the heavenly bodies, particularly on the radiation of the moon and related physical questions; the youngest, the Hon.
The claims of verse composition have since been judiciously defended by the Hon.
He was also hon.
The hon was the usual small standard; by 8 vases which have contents stated in hons (8, 12, 20, 22, 33, 40) the mean is 29.2 cub.in.
The variations of hon and uten, however, cover one another completely.
Beside the equivalence of the hon to 5 utens weight of water, the mathematical papyrus (35) gives 5 besha = (2/3)cubic cubit (Revillout's interpretation of this as 1 cubit cubed is impossible geometrically; see Rev. Eg., 1881, for data); this is very concordant, but it is very unlikely for 3 to be introduced in an Egyptian derivation, and probably therefore only a working equivalent.
In 1799 he emigrated to Canada, having been recommended to the Hon.
Lord Monck was appointed the first governor-general, and at his request the Hon.
Sir Hugh Allan of Montreal was at the head of the one, and the Hon.
Breaks had been made in the Liberal ranks also by the death in 1892 of the Hon.
After the defeat of the Mackenzie government, Laurier sat in Parliament as the leader of the Quebec Liberals and first lieutenant to the Hon.
Its Correspondance bimensuelle and Annuaire du mouvement pacifiste are well known, and its obliging hon.
On the list of the corporation the first name is the earl of Clarendon, while the Hon.
He was hon.
The Anglican church of St Collen, Norman and Early English, has a monument in the churchyard to the "Ladies of Llangollen," Lady Eleanor Butler and Hon.
See The Life and Speeches of the Right Hon.
A series of political essays, written by him for the Salem Gazette, was copied by a prominent Philadelphia journal, the editor of which attributed them to the Hon.
Wauchope (1st Warwicks, Lincolns, Seaforths and Camerons), and 2nd Brigade, commanded by Colonel the Hon.
This page gives an overview of all articles in the 1911 Brittanica which are alphabetized under Hon to Hot.
See Hon.
Hon ., who had created for himself a principality in the vicinity of Madam (Ctesiphon).
The chief promoters of this syndicate were Sir Rutherford Alcock, Admiral the Hon.
The letters bearing the name of Phalaris (148 in number) are now chiefly remembered for the crushing exposure they received at the hands of Richard Bentley in his controversy with the Hon.
In connexion with this subject he anticipated one of Faraday's The Electrical Researches of the Hon.
Osterman and the proposed Partition of Turkey (Rus.) (Odessa, 1889); Hon.