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guest
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)
- A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
- A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
- An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
- (computing) A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
- (zoology) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
- (zoology) An inquiline.
Translations
Verb
guest (third-person singular simple present guests, present participle guesting, simple past and past participle guested)
- (intransitive) to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast
- (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)
- (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
- 1608, Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes
Translations
Derived terms
Anagrams
- tegus
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guests
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??sts/
Noun
guests
- plural of guest
Verb
guests
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of guest
Anagrams
- gusset
guests From the web:
- what guests do at a wedding reception
- what guests are on the tonight show tonight
- what guests were on the view today
- what guests are on the voice tonight
- what guests are on bill maher tonight
- what guests were on morning joe today
- what guests want from a hotel
- what guests are on jimmy fallon tonight
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