guest

CEFRA2

/ɡɛst/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person invited to visit or stay somewhere.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A patron or customer in a hotel etc.

Examples

  • He was a guest speaker at the conference.

  • She was pleased to be treated as a guest.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.

  2. A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.

  3. A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.

More examples

In context

  • The maid announced each guest.

  • Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.

  • The guests were let in by the butler.

Quick test

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The hotel manager greeted the blank at the front desk upon arrival.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old English ġiest, both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”). Cognate with Bavarian Gåst (“guest”), Dutch gast (“guest”), German Gast (“guest”), Luxembourgish Gaascht (“guest”), Vilamovian gost (“guest”), Yiddish גאַסט (gast, “guest”), Danish gæst (“guest, visitor”), Faroese, Icelandic gestur (“guest”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk gjest (“guest”), Swedish gäst (“guest”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (gasts, “guest”). Doublet of host, from Latin.