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==English==
An '''honorable mention''' is an [[award]] given to something that does not make it to a higher standing but is worth [[mention]]ing in an [[honor]]able way.


===Alternative forms===
{{award-stub}}
* [[honourable mention]]


===Pronunciation===
[[Category:Awards]]
* {{audio|en|en-au-honorable mention.ogg|a=AU}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|idiomatic}} An [[award]] or [[recognition]] given to a [[person]] or [[thing]] who does not achieve a higher standing but whose performance or entry was [[noteworthy]].
#* '''2006''', Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, [https://web.archive.org/web/20150328054542/http://www.learnprolognow.org/lpnpage.php?pagetype=html&pageid=lpn-htmlse34 ''Learn Prolog Now!''], §8.3
#*: How good are DCGs from a linguistic perspective? Well, mixed. At one stage (in the early 1980s) they were pretty much state of the art. They made it possible to code complex grammars in a clear way, and to explore the interplay of syntactic and semantic ideas. Certainly any history of parsing in computational linguistics would give DCGs an [[honorable mention|'''honourable mention''']].

====Translations====
{{trans-top|award or recognition}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t|cmn|榮譽獎|tr=róngyùjiǎng}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|kunniamaininta}}
* French: {{t|fr|mention honorable|f}}
* Hungarian: {{t|hu|([[külön]]) [[elismerés]]/[[dicséret]]}}
* Russian: {{t-needed|ru}}
* Tagalog: {{t|tl|pangaraling banggit}}
* Thai: {{t|th|รางวัลชมเชย|tr=raang-wan-chom-chəəi}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===See also===
*{{l|en|honorary mention}}

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honorable mention (plural honorable mentions)

  1. (idiomatic) An award or recognition given to a person or thing who does not achieve a higher standing but whose performance or entry was noteworthy.
    • 2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §8.3
      How good are DCGs from a linguistic perspective? Well, mixed. At one stage (in the early 1980s) they were pretty much state of the art. They made it possible to code complex grammars in a clear way, and to explore the interplay of syntactic and semantic ideas. Certainly any history of parsing in computational linguistics would give DCGs an honourable mention.

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