Guest

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  • noun. One who is a recipient of hospitality at the home or table of another.
  • noun. One to whom entertainment or hospitality has been extended by another in the role of host or hostess, as at a party.
  • noun. One who pays for meals or accommodations at a restaurant, hotel, or other establishment; a patron.
  • noun. A distinguished visitor to whom the hospitality of an institution, city, or government is extended.
  • noun. A visiting performer, speaker, or contestant, as on a radio or television program.
  • noun. A commensal organism, especially an insect that lives in the nest or burrow of another species.
  • intransitive verb. To entertain as a guest.
  • intransitive verb. To appear as a guest.
  • adjective. Provided for guests.
  • adjective. Participating as a guest.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A dialectal variant of ghost. Brockett. Compare larguest.
  • To entertain as a guest; receive with hospitality.
  • To act the part of a guest; be a guest.
  • noun. A stranger; a foreigner.
  • noun. A person received into one's house or at one's table out of friendship or courtesy; a person entertained gratuitously; a visitor sojourning in the house of, or entertained at table by, another.
  • noun. A person entertained for pay, as at an inn or in a boarding-house; a boarder or lodger.
  • noun. In zoology, a parasite: as, “a dozen tapeworm guests,” Cobbold.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To receive or entertain hospitably.
  • noun. A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.
  • noun. A lodger or a boarder at a hotel, lodging house, or boarding house.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
  • noun. An inquiline.
  • intransitive verb. To be, or act the part of, a guest.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another
  • noun. a patron or customer in a hotel etc.
  • noun. an invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast
  • verb. to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast
  • verb. 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)
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959)
  • noun. (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
  • noun. a visitor to whom hospitality is extended
  • noun. a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.
  • Word Usage
    "You are my guest, or rather, I should say, _Lady Horsingham's guest_."
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