guest
Forms
- Plural
- guests
- present (v1)
- guest
- past (v2)
- guested
- past participle (v3)
- guested
- present participle
- guesting
- 3rd person singular
- guests
Definitions
1.A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
- 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.
2.A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
- Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.
3.An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
- The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.
4.A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
- Tom will be sleeping in the guest bedroom.
1.To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast.
- Jimmy Fallon’s Trump impression struggled to match up to the real thing when Trump guested on his show.
- During the '60s, he guested as off-beat characters on TV shows like "The Asphalt Jungle," "Bus Stop," and "The Detectives."
2.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).
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1462
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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”). Doublet of host, from Latin.