guest of honor

noun

1. a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.

2. a distinguished person invited to a dinner, meeting, etc., especially on some unique occasion.

Example Sentences

He accepted and made a short speech at the event, praising the guest of honor.

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The guest of honor could not be persuaded.

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The cake, it seemed, was upstaging the guest of honor.

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At a dinner on Fifth Avenue where Churchill was the guest of honor, Mitchell, trying to maintain his usual bonhomie, stood up and offered a toast: “To my fellow former millionaires.”

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But it was only just a few days ago that Allen came under fire for virtually attending the Moscow Film Festival as a guest of honor.

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