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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Guest \Guest\ (g[e^]st), noun [OE. gest, AS. g[ae]st, gest; akin to OS., D., & G. gast, Icel. gestr, Sw. g["a]st, Dan. Gj["a]st, Goth. gasts, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, but the root is unknown. Cf. {Host} an army, {Hostile}.]
1. 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. --Spenser.
True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. --Pope.
2. A lodger or a boarder at a hotel, lodging house, or boarding house.
3. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite. (b) An inquiline. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Guest \Guest\, verb (used with an object) To receive or entertain hospitably. [Obs.] --Sylvester.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Guest \Guest\, verb (used without an object) To be, or act the part of, a guest. [Obs.]
And tell me, best of princes, who he was That guested here so late. --Chapman.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
guest
adjective: staying temporarily; "a visiting foreigner"; "guest conductor" [syn: {visiting}, {guest(a)}]
noun
1: a visitor to whom hospitality is extended [syn: {invitee}]
2: United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959) [syn: {Edgar Guest}, {Edgar Albert Guest}]
3: a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.
4: (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network [syn: {node}, {client}]
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