guest of honour
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English
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[edit]guest of honour (plural guests of honour)
- (British spelling) A guest in whose honour a gathering is held; the most important guest.
- 1947 May and June, “Notes and News: The Bristol Railway Circle”, in Railway Magazine, page 184:
- The guest of honour was Mr. John F. Peckett, Jnr., of the well-known Bristol firm of locomotive engineers.
- 2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC[1]:
- The BBC understands he will be the guest of honour at a ritzy dinner on Wednesday night organised especially for him to meet top corporate executives.
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References
[edit]- “guest of honour”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.