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guest (gest)

noun

    1. a person entertained at the home of another; visitor
    2. a person entertained by another acting as host at a restaurant, theater, etc.
  2. any paying customer of a hotel, restaurant, etc.
  3. a nonmember receiving the hospitality of a club, institution, etc.
  4. a person who appears or performs on a program by special invitation
  5. inquiline

Etymology: ME gest < ON gestr, akin to OE gæst, Ger gast < IE base *ghostis, stranger, guest > L hostis

adjective

  1. for guests
  2. performing by special invitation a guest artist

transitive verb

to entertain as a guest

intransitive verb

to be, or perform as, a guest

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guest

n.

  1. One to whom hospitality is extended

    visitor, caller, house guest, dinner guest, visitant, company, partaker of hospitality, sharer, recipient of one's bounty, inmate, confidant, confidante, fellow, messmate, boon companion, bedfellow.

  2. One who is received for pay

    tenant, boarder, patron, customer, paying guest, roomer, habitué, sojourner, frequenter, lodger, renter. See syn. study at visitor.visitor.


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guest Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • honor: Guest of honor was, of course, Ozzy, the guide dog.

Converse of object

  • invite: A proud owner will invite guests to enjoy his creation.

Adjective modifier

  • distinguished: Among the distinguished guests was Professor Moshe Sharon, who holds the chair for Bahá'í studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Modifies a noun

  • speaker: Each meeting will also have a guest speaker who will talk us about some of the topics related to our new babies.

Noun used with modifier

  • celebrity: There will also be numerous celebrity guests from other work Wendy has appeared in.
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guest quotes

   Earth receive an honoured guest; WilliamYeats is laid to rest: Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)

Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to draw to our end, and had no sign of virtue to shew; but were consumed in our own wickedness. For the hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind; like a thin froth that is driven away with the storm; like as the smoke which is dispersed here and there with a tempest, and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.

-Bible (Apocrypha)

I think the dying prayat the last not please but thank you as a guest thanks his host at the door.

-Dillard, Annie

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