different between guest vs banqueter

English

Etymology

From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old English ?iest, both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?óstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”). Cognate with German Gast (“guest”). Doublet of host, from Latin.

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?st, IPA^(key): /??st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Homophone: guessed

Noun

guest (plural guests)

1. A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
2. A patron or customer in a hotel etc.

3. An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.

4. (computing) A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
5. (zoology) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
6. (zoology) An inquiline.

Translations

Verb

guest (third-person singular simple present guests, present participle guesting, simple past and past participle guested)

1. (intransitive) to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast
2. (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)
3. (transitive, obsolete) To receive or entertain hospitably.
   • 1608, Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes

     Two Angels sent Two Heav'nly Scowts the Lord to Sodom sent ; downe , received and guested

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• tegus

English

Etymology

banquet +? -er

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?bænkw?t?/

Noun

banqueter (plural banqueters)

1. A guest at a banquet.

   Between courses, the banqueters were entertained by minstrels in medieval garb.

Synonyms

• banqueteer
• feaster

French

Etymology

banquet +? -er

Verb

banqueter

1. To banquet, feast

Conjugation

With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.