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guest

[gest]

noun

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

a person who receives the hospitality of a club, a city, or the like.

a person who patronizes a hotel, restaurant, etc., for the lodging, food, or entertainment it provides.

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.

Zoology. an inquiline.

verb (used with object)

to entertain as a guest.

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phylum of worms with bilateral symmetry and soft, usually flattened bodies

cold-blooded vertebrate such as turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians and tuatara

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verb (used without object)

to be a guest; make an appearance as a guest: She's been guesting on all the TV talk shows.

adjective

provided for or done by a guest: a guest towel; a guest column for a newspaper.

participating or performing as a guest: a guest conductor.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English gest < Old Norse gestr; replacing Old English gi(e)st; cognate with German Gast, Gothic gasts, Latin hostis; compare host¹, host²

Related forms

guest·less, adjective

Can be confused: guessed, guest.

Synonyms
1. company. See visitor.

Example Sentences

To get on the guest list, call the club and leave a voice message with your name.

There are several wings of guest rooms, which vary greatly in décor.

For me, the question of whether cold or light causes the leaves to turn became the guest who wouldn't leave.

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To get on the guest list, call the club and leave a voice message with your name.

There are several wings of guest rooms, which vary greatly in décor.

For me, the question of whether cold or light causes the leaves to turn became the guest who wouldn't leave.

Now it's a light-filled guest cottage, playroom, and home office more.

There are eight rooms in the guest ranch, all with private baths.

If you want to draw up the new evolutionary illistration that depicts every single race evoling through time be my guest.

With a futon that works as a bed, the living room is easily transformed into a guest bedroom.

Backed by a guest house, an artificial creek doubles as a kid-size wading pool and water play area.

Later the family may turn it into a studio, office, or guest house.

It's pretty much the perfect guest ranch, where guests are.

Green-friendly travelers know to reuse hotel towels and request that guest room linens not be changed.

Polo traveled through it largely unscathed by carrying paiza, inscribed golden tablets, describing him as a guest of the emperor.

Now it's a light-filled guest cottage, playroom, and home offi.

The technique fools so-called guest operating systems into believing they are in charge of the computer's hardware.

Hotels are responding to guest surveys that show fitness on the road is a priority for many travelers.

Guest rooms are made of wood and have crisp white linens.

The building also contains a spinning studio and regularly hosts special shows by guest artists.

See how a husband-and-wife design team remodeled their garage and turned it into a guest house and office.

We all know enough to reuse our hotel towels and request that guest room linens not be changed every day.

They finally seem to accept the reality that their guest isn't hungry, and they free me.

Guest accompanying the winner must sign the liability and publicity release described below.

For more affordable lodging, try guest houses, which offer simple rooms with shared facilities.

It has small-town rodeos, relaxed guest ranches, and roadside diners with good pie.

The resulting guest suite and home office function separately as highly flexible bonus rooms.

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noun

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

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World English Dictionary

guest (ɡɛst)

—n
1.	a person who is entertained, taken out to eat, etc, and paid for by another
2.	a. a person who receives hospitality at the home of another: a weekend guest
	b. (as modifier): the guest room
3.	a. a person who receives the hospitality of a government, establishment, or organization
	b. (as modifier): a guest speaker
4.	a. an actor, contestant, entertainer, etc, taking part as a visitor in a programme in which there are also regular participants
	b. (as modifier): a guest appearance
5.	a patron of a hotel, boarding house, restaurant, etc
6.	zoology a nontechnical name for inquiline
7.	informal be my guest do as you like

—vb
8.	(intr) (in theatre and broadcasting) to be a guest: to guest on a show

[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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Word Origin & History

guest

O.E. gæst, giest (Anglian gest) "guest, enemy," the common notion being "stranger," from P.Gmc. *gastiz (cf. O.Fris. jest, Du. gast, Ger. Gast, Goth. gasts), from PIE base *ghostis "strange" (cf. O.C.S. gosti "guest, friend"), also preserved in L. hostis "stranger, enemy," and hospes "host," from

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hosti-potis "host, guest," originally "lord of strangers." Spelling evolution infl. by O.N. gestr (the usual sound changes from the O.E. word would have yielded Mod.Eng. *yest). Phrase be my guest in the sense of "go right ahead" first recorded 1955.

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Idioms & Phrases

guest

see be my guest.

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