Honoured with a meal around the end of August (5)
I believe the answer is:
feted
'honoured' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with social activities as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'meal around the end of august' is the wordplay.
'meal' becomes 'feed' (feed can mean food).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the end of' says to take the final letters.
The final letter of 'august' is 't'.
'feed' going around 't' is 'FETED'.
'with a' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for feted that I've seen before include "Wined and dined, celebrated" , "Wined, dined and honoured" , "Lionised" , "Honoured with festivities" , "Honoured lavishly" .)