HONOURS DEGREE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A university degree with honors

Synonyms:

honours; honours degree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("honours degree" is a kind of...):

academic degree; degree (an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "honours degree"):

first; first-class honours degree (an honours degree of the highest class)