different between guest vs goest

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

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Anagrams

• tegus

English

Etymology

go +? -est

Verb

goest

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of go

   • Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     "Ha," said Robin, "comest thou from Locksley Town? Well do I know that fair place for miles about, and well do I know each hedgerow and gentle pebbly stream, and even all the bright little fishes therein, for there I was born and bred. Now, where goest thou with thy meat, my fair friend?"

Anagrams

• go set, gotes, stoge, toges