Definitions for Guest

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Guest guest

Spelling: [gest]

IPA: /gɛst/

Guest is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in Guest (egstu).

Definitions for Guest

noun

1. a person who spends some time at another person's home in some social activity, as a visit, dinner, or party.
2. a person who receives the hospitality of a club, a city, or the like.
3. a person who patronizes a hotel, restaurant, etc., for the lodging, food, or entertainment it provides.
4. an often well-known person invited to participate or perform in a regular program, series, etc., as a substitute for a regular member or as a special attraction.
5. Zoology. an inquiline.
6. Edgar A(lbert) 1881–1959, U.S. journalist and writer of verse, born in England.

adjective

1. provided for or done by a guest:
2. participating or performing as a guest:

verb (used with object)

1. to entertain as a guest.

verb (used without object)

1. to be a guest; make an appearance as a guest:

Origin of Guest

before 900; Middle English gest Old Norse gestr; replacing Old English gi(e)st; cognate with German Gast, Gothic gasts, Latin hostis; cf. host¹, Examples for Guest

Emilia had gone for a few weeks to the mountains, with the household of which she was a guest.

That explains the impressive roster of guest stars the series has racked up of politicians playing themselves.

Maintaining the high caliber of guest to which his viewers have become accustomed, Galifianakis welcomes Brad Pitt to the ferns.

And then I met him before I started doing the impression of him when he was a guest on SNL for a moment.

Rachel Maddow, too, apparently impresses in her upcoming season two guest turn.

But we forget that the reader has not yet been made acquainted with the guest.

This fellow, who had offered to take money for a guest, was damned for life and branded.

Grace took out of her bag a guest towel she was embroidering.

Al Qaeda has never managed to carve out a large chunk of real estate to call its own—in Afghanistan it was a guest of the Taliban.

I will acquaint you with what passed at the general leave given me to be your guest.