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Webster 1913 Edition
Guest
Guest
(gĕst)
, Noun.
1.
A visitor; a person received and entertained in one’s house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.
To cheer his
guests
, whom he had stayed that night. Spenser.
True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest.
Welcome the coming, speed the parting
Welcome the coming, speed the parting
guest
. Pope.
2.
A lodger or a boarder at a hotel, lodging house, or boarding house.
Guest
,Verb.
T.
To receive or entertain hospitably.
[Obs.]
Sylvester.
Guest
,Verb.
I.
To be, or act the part of, a guest.
[Obs.]
And tell me, best of princes, who he was
That
That
guested
here so late. Chapman.
Webster 1828 Edition
Guest
GUEST
,Noun.
1.
A stranger; one who comes from a distance, and takes lodgings at a place, either for a night or for a longer time.2.
A visitor; a stranger or friend, entertained in the house or at the table of another, whether by invitation or otherwise. The wedding was furnished with guests. Matt.22.
Definition 2024
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English
Noun
guest (plural guests)
- A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
- The guests were let in by the butler.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
- We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.
- A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
- Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.
- An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
- The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.
- (zoology) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
- (zoology) An inquiline.
Translations
recipient of hospitality
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patron, customer
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invited performer
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Verb
guest (third-person singular simple present guests, present participle guesting, simple past and past participle guested)
- (intransitive) to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast
- (intransitive) as a musician, to play as a guest, providing an instrument that a band/orchestra does not normally have in its line up (for instance, percussion in a string band)
- (transitive, obsolete) To receive or entertain hospitably.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sylvester to this entry?)
Translations
to appear as a guest
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Derived terms
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