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guest

guest

∞ 1.0
A person invited to someone's home, hotel, restaurant, or event
  • noun
  • /ɡɛst/
: invitado
  • 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.

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Examples

  • Wow, you have invited the perfect guest for this moment.

  • 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.

  • Very nice time to welcome our first guest of the series.

  • But first, every guest gets a gift.

  • Yes, well, we're super excited to have guests on today.

  • But first, we have to welcome our guest, Candy Johnson.

  • There are 200 guests about to show up at the Four Seasons, all right?

  • 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

visitor
vsguest
908 1.0

A person who goes to a place for a short time to see someone or something

focuses on being invited or hosted rather than casual short visits
attendee
vsguest
68 3.0

A person who goes to and takes part in an event

emphasises being invited or hosted rather than mere presence and participation
invitee
vsguest
3 3.3

A person who is asked to come to an event as a guest

also covers people who receive hospitality without a formal invitation
visitant
vsguest
  • Archaic
1 9.8

A person who goes to a place to see people or things, often in old writing

is the common everyday term emphasising invitation or hospitality

Antonyms

∞ 1.8

A person who lives in a place for a long time

Idioms

Let someone do or use something

Compounds

34 3.5

A person invited and shown special respect at a party or ceremony

20 3.5

A person from another country allowed to do a job for a short time

14 2.1

A person who is invited to stay in someone's home

10 1.7

A room for visitors to sleep in

A person invited to attend a wedding and its celebrations

A person who comes to an event without being invited or wanted

An evening when club or college members bring friends

highborn guest
  • Literature
8.8

A guest from a noble family like a prince or lord

How Welcome

guest of honor
  • Formal
34 3.5
guest
∞ 1.0
visitor
908 1.0

Surface Forms

guest singular
guests plural

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.