honor guard

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsguard of honor

   Broaderescort

Questions about honor guard

What does honor guard mean?

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

What is another word for honor guard?

Close synonyms include guard of honor. 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 honor guard a common word?

honor guard 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.