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  1. noun One who is a recipient of hospitality at the home or table of another.
  2. noun One to whom entertainment or hospitality has been extended by another in the role of host or hostess, as at a party.
  3. noun One who pays for meals or accommodations at a restaurant, hotel, or other establishment; a patron.
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  • The second singing guest is Czech New Yorker Iva Bittová, who would ordinarily double on the violin. —  The Stirrer
  • The lucky winners of the competition and their guest will be avoiding the winter blues this November and instead will be cruising around the stunning Caribbean Islands in style. —  We Blog A Lot
  • Between his time at HSHS-which limits guests to two-week stays and requires a one week lapse before the guest is allowed to return-Yelbi moved between the Salvation Army shelter in Central Square and friends 'houses. —  The Harvard Crimson :: News
  • Her attack on this guest was the last straw. “She walks around in the same grimy bikini bottoms each day with her boobs on show, gets drunk, gropes waiters and is rude to male staff. —  The Bosh
  • How I love that guy … Anyway, his guest was a woman who had spent over two decades working for herself in real estate. —  Business Pundit
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visitor ·  servant ·  companion ·  friend ·  lady ·  member ·  passenger ·  folk ·  one ·  student ·  family ·  audience

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guest:   guests
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr; see ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also ghest (the u or h being (as also in guess, ghost, etc.) a modern and erroneous insertion); early modern English also gest, geast; from Middle English gest, geest, earlier sometimes gist, from Anglo-Saxon gœst, gest, gist, giest, gyst, a guest, properly an accidental guest, a chance comer, a stranger, = Old Saxon gast = D. Middle Low German Low German Old High German Middle High German G. gast = Icelandic gestr = Swedish gäst = Danish gjœst (and borrowed gast) = Gothic (Moesogothic) gasts, a guest, a stranger, = Latin hostis, in earlier use a stranger, in classical use an enemy, plural hostes, the enemy (later ult. English host). Cf. Latin hospes (hospit-) (orig. *hostipotis?), he who entertains a stranger (later ult. English host), = Old Bulgarian gosti = Russian goste, a guest, visitor, stranger, alien. Root unknown.
  2. from Middle English gesten (= Middle High German gesten = Swedish gästa = Danish gjeste), entertain as a guest; from the noun.
 

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