0 a group of people, usually soldiers, who are arranged in a row at a special occasion such as a marriage ceremony or an official visit, to honour someone very important
I find that this guard of honour of one officer and eight cadets was arranged through a misunderstanding by the unit's commanding officer.
He was hardly the one to be distinguished with a guard of honour.
We must have a guard of honour of public school boys.
I found that the guard of honour consisted entirely of miners and were a fine looking group.
That means very little to non-soldiers, but imagine the effect of seeing a man in a guard of honour in brown boots.
He received a guard of honour from the players (and his wife) at the start of the final day's play.
All the same, the other teams formed a guard of honour for them as they left the field.
A small guard of honour would be in attendance in the background.
