'Guest' definitions:
Definition of 'guest'
(from WordNet)
noun
A visitor to whom hospitality is extended [syn: guest, invitee]
noun
United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959) [syn: Guest, Edgar Guest, Edgar Albert Guest]
noun
A customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.
noun
Definition of 'Guest'
From: GCIDE
- Guest \Guest\ (g[e^]st), n. [OE. gest, AS. g[ae]st, gest; akin to OS., D., & G. gast, Icel. gestr, Sw. g[aum]st, Dan. Gj[aum]st, Goth. gasts, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, but the root is unknown. Cf. Host an army, Hostile.]
- 1. A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay. [1913 Webster]
- To cheer his guests, whom he had stayed that night. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A lodger or a boarder at a hotel, lodging house, or boarding house. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Zool.) (a) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite. (b) An inquiline. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Guest'
From: GCIDE
- Guest \Guest\, v. t. To receive or entertain hospitably. [Obs.] --Sylvester. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Guest'
From: GCIDE
- Guest \Guest\, v. i. To be, or act the part of, a guest. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- And tell me, best of princes, who he was That guested here so late. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]