guest of honor

1. 1.

   the person in whose honor a gathering is held

   Broaderguest

Questions about guest of honor

What does guest of honor mean?

guest of honor means "the person in whose honor a gathering is held".

Is guest of honor a common word?

guest 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.