Definitions for guest
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Princeton's WordNet(3.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. guest, invitee(noun)

   a visitor to whom hospitality is extended

2. Guest, Edgar Guest, Edgar Albert Guest(noun)

   United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959)

3. guest(noun)

   a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.

4. node, client, guest(noun)

   (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network

Wiktionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. guest(Noun)

   a recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another

   Etymology: From gest, from gestr, replacing Old English ġiest.

2. guest(Noun)

   a patron or customer in a hotel etc.

   Etymology: From gest, from gestr, replacing Old English ġiest.

3. guest(Noun)

   an invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast

   Etymology: From gest, from gestr, replacing Old English ġiest.

4. guest(Verb)

   to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast

   Etymology: From gest, from gestr, replacing Old English ġiest.

5. guest(Verb)

   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)

   Etymology: From gest, from gestr, replacing Old English ġiest.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Guest(noun)

   a visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay

   Etymology: [OE. gest, AS. gst, gest; akin to OS., D., & G. gast, Icel. gestr, Sw. gst, Dan. Gjst, Goth. gasts, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, but the root is unknown. Cf. Host an army, Hostile.]

2. Guest(verb)

   to receive or entertain hospitably

   Etymology: [OE. gest, AS. gst, gest; akin to OS., D., & G. gast, Icel. gestr, Sw. gst, Dan. Gjst, Goth. gasts, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, but the root is unknown. Cf. Host an army, Hostile.]

3. Guest(verb)

   to be, or act the part of, a guest

   Etymology: [OE. gest, AS. gst, gest; akin to OS., D., & G. gast, Icel. gestr, Sw. gst, Dan. Gjst, Goth. gasts, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, but the root is unknown. Cf. Host an army, Hostile.]

Freebase(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Guest

   Guest is the first studio album by Critters Buggin of Seattle, Washington and was released in 1994 on Stone Gossard's then new label Loosegroove. Guest was reissued by Kufala Recordings in 2004.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Guest

   gest, n. a visitor received and entertained.—n. Guest′-cham′ber (B.), a chamber or room for the accommodation of guests.—v.i. Guest′en (Scot.), to stay as a guest.—adv. Guest′wise, in the manner or capacity of a guest. [A.S. gest, gæst; allied to Dut. and Ger. gast, L. hostis, stranger, enemy.]

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. guest

   A customer or customers who go to a hotel or type of related business.

   Our friends arrived at the hotel for business and are so grateful for the hospitable welcome.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 18, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'guest' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3997

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'guest' in Nouns Frequency: #818

Anagrams for guest »

1. tegus

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of guest in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of guest in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of guest in a Sentence

1. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov:

   We are always in favor of military people talking to each other in a professional way. They understand each other very well, if, as (U.S. Secretary of State) John Kerry has said many times, the United States wants those channels frozen, then be our guest.

2. Gemma Hulbert:

   It's pretty crazy, when we go into every guest cabin on a daily basis we open every product, every piece of makeup, every item of face-wash and we check the cap. You clean it so it looks like it's just come directly from the shop. If it's foundation you wipe everything perfectly clean.

3. Bjorn Hanson:

   Hotels do care about those, if a guest takes pillows, about half the time the hotel will send a letter saying, ‘ We hope you’re enjoying the pillows — here’s the invoice. ’.

4. Bernie Sanders:

   At a time when nearly 14% of Americans do not have a full-time job and when the middle class is working longer hours for lower wages, I oppose a massive increase in temporary guest worker programs that will allow large corporations to import hundreds of thousands of blue-collar and white-collar workers from overseas.

5. Titus Maccius Plautus:

   No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

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