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noun

Guest n.

A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay. "To cheer his guests, whom he had stayed that night." "True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."

A lodger or a boarder at a hotel, lodging house, or boarding house.

(Zool.)

(a)

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

(b)

An inquiline.

verb

Guest v. t. To receive or entertain hospitably. (Obs.)

Guest v. i. To be, or act the part of, a guest. (Obs.) "And tell me, best of princes, who he was That guested here so late."

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Etymology of 'Guest'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Guest" Quotes from Famous Books

... new cousin for a guest!" cried the King; and, as Fritz shrugged his shoulders, he added: "Oh! I'll ...

— The Prisoner of Zenda • Anthony Hope

... Well, you're not a common soldier, O'Flaherty: you're a very uncommon one; and I'm proud to have you for my guest here today. ...

— O'Flaherty V. C. • George Bernard Shaw

... what Sir Bleoberis said, and yet no one knew how to reply to him. As for King Mark, he looked upon Sir Bleoberis, smiling very sourly, and as though with great distaste of his words, and he said: "Messire, inasmuch as thou art our guest, and sitting here at feast with us, it is not fit that we should take thy words seriously; else what thou sayst might be ...

— The Story of the Champions of the Round Table • Howard Pyle

... the Surveyor-General, Captain Roe, and many of the leading inhabitants of Perth and Fremantle. The chair was taken by Captain Roe. On his right was his Excellency the Governor, and on his left the guest of the evening—Mr. Forrest. The vice-chair was filled by Mr. Landor. After the cloth had been removed, the chairman, Captain Roe, rose and proposed the Queen, a lady whom the people could not consider without being proud of the sovereign by whom ...

— Explorations in Australia • John Forrest

... Campbell, from whom we have most of these facts, in the course of one of his trapping expeditions, was quartered in the village of Arapooish, and a guest in the lodge of the chieftain. He had collected a large quantity of furs, and, fearful of being plundered, deposited but a part in the lodge of the chief; the rest he buried in a cache. One night, Arapooish came into the lodge with a cloudy brow, and seated ...

— The Adventures of Captain Bonneville - Digested From His Journal • Washington Irving

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