guest
- noun
- /ɡɛst/
- The hotel provides complimentary breakfast for every guest staying overnight.
- a guest speaker
- invite a guest
- welcome guests
I'm going to introduce my guest and I hope this works.
- I'm going to introduce my guest and I hope this works.
- And so I allow them to ask each guest one question.
- OK, turns out my guest today was Debbie Ryan.
- I would like to welcome my first guest, Jessica Chastain.
- And then we can't forget one of our favorite guests, Josh Welch.
- Also, please help me welcome tonight's guest, Alondra Desi.
- Please help me welcome tonight's guest, Kristen Dominique.
- Look, if you're thinking where's the guest, don't worry.
- This is the perspective of my next guest, Leo Bauda.
- No, but they are my guest tonight, Love.
- Like don't introduce them, don't introduce the guest with their LinkedIn bio.
- But first, every guest gets a gift.
Examples
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Wow, you have invited the perfect guest for this moment.
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The program is presented every year with guest speakers, student narrators, and songs sung by each grade level.
Academic text (2015) -
Here she is our special guest, my mother.
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Very nice time to welcome our first guest of the series.
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But first, every guest gets a gift.
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Yes, well, we're super excited to have guests on today.
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But first, we have to welcome our guest, Candy Johnson.
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There are 200 guests about to show up at the Four Seasons, all right?
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For Career Education, we have guests from community colleges come and visit the students.
Academic text (2011) -
Today we have two very special guests, Genzel and Zoe.
Synonyms
A person who goes to a place for a short time to see someone or something
A person who goes to and takes part in an event
A person who is asked to come to an event as a guest
A person who goes to a place to see people or things, often in old writing
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How Welcome
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Etymology
Guest comes from an old English word gæst that meant 'stranger' or 'visitor', often someone who came to a home. So a guest is someone who is invited or given hospitality in a house, hotel, restaurant, or at an event.