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guest

guest

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