Meanings of first honour in English

Suddenly, the club's first honour for eight years is looming.

He was an unusually hard student, and it was generally admitted that he would have taken the first honour had he remained.

Well, "honour among thieves," they say; and mine is the first honour: although among decent folk perhaps, honesty is better.

One of the guests was Stephen Montgolfier, for though Charles might add improvements to others' inventions, he always acknowledged to whom the first honour belonged.

In the earlier examinations, which demand only memory, he won first honours.

Where he has exhibited he has generally carried the first honours.

Was Hawkins, perhaps an erstwhile rival, putting in a bid for first honours?

The first honours in the game had fallen to me.

He was gladdened by the first honours my youth achieved.

When there is a third honoured guest they sit to the right of your first honoured guest.

But she took the first honours.

He got his first honours, and what was more important at the time, money to go on with.