honor (someone) as (something)

honor (someone) as (something)

To praise or celebrate someone as something in particular. Sure, Eric is an accomplished basketball player, but he also has excellent grades, so we're going to honor him as a scholar-athlete. The fireman is being rightfully honored as a hero for rescuing all those people in the apartment fire. So they plan to honor that director as some sort of visionary, completely ignoring the heinous allegations against him?

See also: honor

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honor someone as something

to praise someone as something; to praise someone for being something. Aren't you going to honor Kevin as a hero? We will honor Henry as the most promising scholar of the year.

See also: honor

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