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guest

1

[ gest ]

noun

  1. a person who spends some time at another person's home in some social activity, as a visit, dinner, or party.

    Synonyms: company

  2. a person who receives the hospitality of a club, a city, or the like.
  3. a person who patronizes a hotel, restaurant, etc., for the lodging, food, or entertainment it provides.
  4. an often well-known person invited to participate or perform in a regular program, series, etc., as a substitute for a regular member or as a special attraction.
  5. Zoology. an inquiline.


verb (used with object)

  1. to entertain as a guest.

verb (used without object)

  1. to be a guest; make an appearance as a guest:

    She's been guesting on all the TV talk shows.

adjective

  1. provided for or done by a guest:

    a guest towel; a guest column for a newspaper.

  2. participating or performing as a guest:

    a guest conductor.

Guest

2

[ gest ]

noun

  1. Edgar A(lbert), 1881–1959, U.S. journalist and writer of verse, born in England.

guest

/ ɡɛst /

noun

  1. a person who is entertained, taken out to eat, etc, and paid for by another
    1. a person who receives hospitality at the home of another

      a weekend guest

    2. ( as modifier )

      the guest room

    1. a person who receives the hospitality of a government, establishment, or organization
    2. ( as modifier )

      a guest speaker

    1. an actor, contestant, entertainer, etc, taking part as a visitor in a programme in which there are also regular participants
    2. ( as modifier )

      a guest appearance

  2. a patron of a hotel, boarding house, restaurant, etc
  3. zoology a nontechnical name for inquiline
  4. be my guest informal.
    do as you like
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. intr (in theatre and broadcasting) to be a guest

    to guest on a show

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of guest1

First recorded before 900; Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr; replacing Old English gi(e)st; cognate with German Gast, Gothic gasts, Latin hostis; host 1, host 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of guest1

Old English giest guest, stranger, enemy; related to Old Norse gestr, Gothic gasts, Old High German gast, Old Slavonic gostǐ, Latin hostis enemy
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Idioms and Phrases

see be my guest .
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Synonym Study

See visitor.
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Example Sentences

Some of the best ice picks for home use are designed to add elegance and a unique flair to your personal bar—whether you’re staying in or entertaining guests.

It would also provide an unlimited number of licenses for home-sharing operations, where the homeowner remains on site, and for both whole-home and home-sharing hosts who welcome guests fewer than 20 days a year.

Both the new POS integration and guest profiles support targeted marketing opportunities, the Yelp announcement reads.

The show, which first aired in 1976 and featured characters like Kermit the Frog interacting with celebrity guests, did, on occasion, include some content a modern audience might find questionable.

From Quartz

Throughout February, Martell and Civil are hosting weekly Clubhouse conversations with guests such as beauty brand owner Supa Cent, Lush Yummies Pie CEO Jennifer Lyle, founder of Girl CEO Ronne Brown, and entrepreneur Premadonna.

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And then I met him before I started doing the impression of him when he was a guest on SNL for a moment.

Al Qaeda has never managed to carve out a large chunk of real estate to call its own—in Afghanistan it was a guest of the Taliban.

Despite an impressive celebrity guest-list and the extraordinary garments on show, the event failed to make newspaper front pages.

That explains the impressive roster of guest stars the series has racked up of politicians playing themselves.

Rachel Maddow, too, apparently impresses in her upcoming season two guest turn.

I never dare venture over except as the guest of some more fortunate friend.

Not a week passed which did not find the former, once, twice, or three times a guest at the proud man's table.

When Stanhope entered to him, he found his guest lying on a sofa, in a high state of fever, both from his wounds and agitation.

In such a case, he may go to the house of the noble Spaniard who was his uncle's guest at Lindisfarne.

Certainly, my son; it is always proper to offer food to a guest who takes refuge under our roof.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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