See Also: guest(medicine)
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guest(1) (iou)



guest noun. ME.

A person staying in another's house etc. at his or her invitation; a person having a meal at the expense of another. ME.
be my guest! colloq. you are welcome (to take the action indicated)! guest of honour the chief guest at a dinner or other function. paying guest a lodger.
E. Waugh Father Aelred Watkin came to stay. A very agreeable guest. P. H. Johnson She took out her purse to pay the bill, forgetting she was my guest.
A stranger. ME-L16.
A person having (temporary) accommodation in a hotel, inn, or boarding-house. ME.
A person (of a specified kind), a fellow. Long obsolete exc. dial. ME.
An object regarded as an omen of an approaching stranger. local. E18.
A parasitic organism. M19.
An occasional performer appearing by special invitation with a company other than his or her regular one. E20.
Attrib. & comb.: In the sense 'reserved or suitable for the use of guests in a house', as guest-chamber, guest-hall, guest-room, guest-towel; in the sense 'performing or appearing as a guest (sense 7)', as guest artist, guest conductor, guest star; 'involving such a performer', as guest appearance. Special combs., as guest beer (a) (in a free house) a beer which is available only temporarily; (b) (in a tied public house) a beer (usu. an independent real ale) offered in addition to those produced by the brewery; guest-house a house where strangers are accommodated; now usu., a (superior) boarding-house, esp. one catering for holiday-makers; guest list a list of the people invited to a function; guest-master a member of a monastery or other religious establishment who looks after guests; guest-night: on which members of a club, college, mess, etc., bring guests to dinner; guest speaker a public speaker entertained to a dinner at which he or she gives an address; guest-worker [translating German Gastarbeiter] a person with temporary permission to work in another country, esp. Germany.
guestless adjective having no guests; [translating Greek axenos] inhospitable: L16.
guestship noun the status of a guest M19.