GUEST OF HONOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does guest of honor mean? 

• GUEST OF HONOR (noun)
  The noun GUEST OF HONOR has 1 sense:

1. the person in whose honor a gathering is held

  Familiarity information: GUEST OF HONOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUEST OF HONOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The person in whose honor a gathering is held

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("guest of honor" is a kind of...):

guest; invitee (a visitor to whom hospitality is extended)

 Context examples 

He sat, the guest of honor, at an Arden Club banquet, with men of note whom he had heard about and read about all his life; and they told him how, when they had read The Ring of Bells in the Transcontinental, and The Peri and the Pearl in The Hornet, they had immediately picked him for a winner.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)