guard of honor

1. 1.

   an escort for a distinguished guest or for the casket at a military funeral

   Synonymshonor guard

   Broaderescort

Questions about guard of honor

What does guard of honor mean?

guard of honor means "an escort for a distinguished guest or for the casket at a military funeral".

What is another word for guard of honor?

Close synonyms include honor guard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is guard of honor a common word?

guard of honor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.