honorarium

noun

hon·​o·​rar·​i·​um ˌä-nə-ˈrer-ē-əm 

plural honoraria ˌä-nə-ˈrer-ē-ə  also honorariums

: a payment for a service (such as making a speech) on which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set

donated the honoraria from his speaking engagements

Examples of honorarium in a Sentence

We are willing to offer a small honorarium that we hope you will accept for judging the competition.

Recent Examples on the Web

Their income for that year — from Ms. Power’s salary at Harvard University, book royalties, article fees, honorariums and capital gains — ranged from about $1.5 million to $3.6 million. —Jamie Leventhal, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025

And every speaker at the festival has chosen to donate their honorariums to the California Fire Foundation, helping firefighters and communities rebuild. —Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2025

The remaining 15 semifinalists will receive a $500 honorarium and a matching school grant. —Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019

In addition to a presidential citation and a medal bearing the likeness of Fermi, recipients receive an honorarium of $100,000. —Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024

Word History

Etymology

Latin, from neuter of honorarius

First Known Use

1609, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for honorarium

• planetarium
• sanitarium
• aquarium
• herbarium
• ovarium
• puparium
• samarium
• zoarium
• armamentarium
• cerium