guest
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old English ġiest, both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”).
Cognate with Bavarian Gåst (“guest”), Dutch gast (“guest”), German Gast (“guest”), Luxembourgish Gaascht (“guest”), Vilamovian gost (“guest”), Yiddish גאַסט (gast, “guest”), Danish gæst (“guest, visitor”), Faroese, Icelandic gestur (“guest”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk gjest (“guest”), Swedish gäst (“guest”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (gasts, “guest”). Doublet of host, from Latin.
Inflected forms:
form: guests
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: guesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: guested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: guested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
pos: noun
examples: The guests were let in by the butler.
We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.
gloss: A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
pos: noun
examples: Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.
gloss: An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
pos: noun
examples: special guest
The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.
gloss: A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
pos: noun
gloss: Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
pos: noun
gloss: An inquiline.
pos: noun
gloss: To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: During the '60s, he guested as off-beat characters on TV shows like "The Asphalt Jungle," "Bus Stop," and "The Detectives."
Jimmy Fallon’s Trump impression struggled to match up to the real thing when Trump guested on his show.
gloss: 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).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Oldest son Trey, from Will's first marriage, paved the way for his sibling's stardom when he guested on his dad's hit rap album, Big Willie Style, lending some precocious dialogue to the beginning of "Just the Two of Us" and starring in the accompanying music video:
gloss: To receive or entertain hospitably.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Two Angels sent Two Heav'nly Scowts the Lord to Sodom sent ; downe , received and guested
Derived words: be my guest
cave guest
guestage
guest beer
guest blogger
guest book
guest chair
guestchamber
guesten
guestfree
guestfriendliness
guest-friendly
guestfriendly
guestfriendship
guest-friendship
guesthouse
guest house
guestish
guestless
guestlike
guestlist
guestly
guestmeal
guest night
guest of Her Majesty
guest of honour
guest of honor
guest ranch
guest rancher
guest relation officer
guest room
guest rope
guest speaker
guest star
guest-star
guestwise
guest worker
house guest
houseguest
mystery guest
nonguest
pity guest
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