Definition of "guest"

guest

/ɡɛst/

noun
plural guests
1. A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
  Quotations
  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.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
2. A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
3. An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
4. (computing) A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
5. (zoology) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
6. (zoology) An inquiline.
verb
third-person singular simple present guests, present participle guesting, simple past and past participle guested
1. (intransitive) To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast.
  Quotations
  During the '60s, he guested as off-beat characters on TV shows like "The Asphalt Jungle," "Bus Stop," and "The Detectives."
  1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 254
2. (intransitive) 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. (transitive, obsolete) To receive or entertain hospitably.
  Quotations
  Two Angels sent Two Heav'nly Scowts the Lord to Sodom sent ; downe , received and guested
  1608, [Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas], “(please specify the page)”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611

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