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guestbook

guestbook

1 3.2
A book or online form where visitors write names and messages
  • noun
  • /ˈɡɛstˌbʊk/
translation icon : libro de visitas
  • The guestbook bulged with the compliments of visitors and investors from 49 states and 27 countries.
  • Sign the guestbook
  • names on every guestbook

Examples

  • While visiting Westminster Abbey, Obama went to sign in at the guestbook.

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  • When you are planning your wedding event, you have to be sure that there is a person allocated to pick up your guestbook, toasting cups, video cameras, and so on from the furniture.

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  • Everything I get is a "Like" (most of the time from the same two or three people), but nobody seems to comment in my guestbook.

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  • Excerpts from the V.V. guestbook:

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  • The website for the show features a 'hotel gift shop' and a 'guestbook' with quotes from celebrities like Pink and Leonardo DiCaprio.

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  • In the guestbook, Shawn writes this was the 2nd to last show, but there's another entry in the guestbook on 92-05-24.

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  • In the guestbook, Shawn writes this was the 2nd to last show, but there's another entry in the guestbook on 92-05-24.

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  • On that visit, at the mausoleum of Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish republic, he signed the guestbook as "your modest soldier, Elchibey."

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  • Bassist Greta (replacing Andy Hadel on this tour) wrote something in the V.V. guestbook.

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  • While visiting Westminster Abbey, Obama went to sign in at the guestbook.

Synonyms

register
vsguestbook
  • Formal
68 3.0

An official written list of names or events

is an informal place for visitors to write names and short messages
sign-up
vsguestbook
12 3.0

A form where people write their names to join an activity

is used by visitors to leave names and comments rather than to join

How Formal

register
  • Formal
68 3.0
guestbook
1 3.2
sign-up
12 3.0

Surface Forms

guestbook singular
guestbooks plural

Morphology

guestbook = guest + book (transparent) = guest + book

The meaning is directly composed from 'guest' + 'book': a book for guests to sign or write messages, which is obvious to learners.

Etymology

Guestbook comes from the simple words guest and book: a guest is a 'visitor' and a book is something 'to write in'. So a guestbook is a book or an online page where visitors sign their names or leave messages.