guest

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Pronunciation
/Ι‘Ι›st/
Noun
6 definition(s)
1 Definition

A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another.

Example Sentences
  • The guests were let in by the butler.
2 Definition

A patron or customer in a hotel etc.

Example Sentences
  • Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.
3 Definition

An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.

Example Sentences
  • The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.
4 Definition

A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.

5 Definition

Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.

6 Definition

An inquiline.

Verb
3 definition(s)
1 Definition

To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast

2 Definition

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 Definition

To receive or entertain hospitably.