guest of honour

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guest of honour (plural guests of honour)

  1. (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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