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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishgest, fromOld Norsegestr, which replaced or was merged withOld Englishġiest, both fromProto-Germanic*gastiz, fromProto-Indo-European*gʰóstis(“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”). Cognate withGermanGast(“guest”),Norwegiangjest(“guest”).Doublet ofhost, from Latin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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guest (pluralguests)

  1. Arecipient ofhospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
    Theguests were let in by the butler.
  2. Apatron orcustomer in ahotel etc.
    Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.
  3. Aninvitedvisitor or performer to aninstitution or to abroadcast.
    specialguest
    Theguest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.
  4. (computing) Auser given temporaryaccess to asystem despite not having anaccount of their own.
  5. (zoology) Anyinsect that lives in thenest of another withoutcompulsion and usually not as aparasite.
  6. (zoology) Aninquiline.

Translations

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recipient of hospitality
patron, customer
invited performer

Verb

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guest (third-person singular simple presentguests,present participleguesting,simple past and past participleguested)

  1. (intransitive) Toappear as a guest, especially on a broadcast.
    • 1990, Wayne Jancik,The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders,→ISBN, page254:
      During the '60s, heguested as off-beat characters on TV shows like "The Asphalt Jungle," "Bus Stop," and "The Detectives."
  2. (intransitive) As amusician: toplay as a guest, providing aninstrument that a band/orchestra does not normally have in its line up (for instance,percussion in astring band).
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To receive or entertain hospitably.
    • 1608,[Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “(please specify the page)”, inJosuah Sylvester, transl.,Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes[and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published1611,→OCLC:
      Two Angels sent Two Heav'nly Scowts the Lord to Sodom sent ; downe , received andguested

Translations

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to appear as a guest
to receive or entertain hospitably as a guest—seehost

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