Guest

Quick meaning: Guest is a noun meaning A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.

Meaning

A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.

More Meanings

1. A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
2. An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
3. (computing) A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
4. (zoology) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
5. (zoology) An inquiline.
6. (intransitive) To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast.
7. (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).

Example Sentences

special guest

The guests were let in by the butler.

The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.

Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.

Word Forms

• guests
• guesting
• guested

Synonyms for guest

Depending on context, synonyms include client, invitee, visiting, node.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include visiting, invitee, client, impermanent, temporary, node.

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