Meaning of honorable mention | Babel Free
Definitions
An award or recognition given to a person or thing who does not achieve a higher standing but whose performance or entry was noteworthy.
Equivalents
Examples
“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⟳.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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