WordNet
guest of honor
n. the person in whose honor a gathering is held
Usage examples of "guest of honor".
It was still, by tradition, a party at which all women brought their sewing, and everyone took at least a few stitches in items intended for the guest of honor.
She sat at Georgides' right as his guest of honor, and, normally, Nimitz would have been placed at her own right.
Edom poured wine for everyone but Barty, root beer for the guest of honor, and while this couldn't be called a celebration, Agnes's spirits were lifted by a sense of normality, of hope, of family.
Ianira herself had spoken of it to him one time over dessert in the apartment she and Marcus shared, when Skeeter himself was the guest of honor.
A smaller chair was placed across the circle from him for his guest of honor.