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Definition of Guest of honor
1. Noun. The person in whose honor a gathering is held.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guest Of Honor
Literary usage of Guest of honor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Addresses and Proceedings by National Education Association of the United States, National Teachers' Association (U.S.)., American Normal School Association, Central College Association (1905)
"At the close of the dinner President Cooley, with whom the idea of the banquet
originated, introduced the guest of honor to whom he paid ..."
2. The Story of the Exposition: Being the Official History of the International by Frank Morton Todd (1921)
"Judge Lamar declared the guest of honor "great in the greatness of deeds done.
... It has stopped for four hundred years, waiting for the guest of honor of ..."
3. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1908)
"The first dinner was held on December 5, and Mr. HG Stott, of New York, president
of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, was the guest of honor, ..."