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guest¹
- /ɡɛst/
Sounds like guessed · Rhymes with -ɛst
Where it comes from
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”). Doublet of host, from Latin.
Cognates
West-Germanic:
:* Bavarian Gåst (“guest”)
:* Dutch gast (“guest”)
:* German Gast (“guest”)
:* Luxembourgish Gaascht (“guest”)
:* Vilamovian gost (“guest”)
:* Yiddish גאַסט (gast, “guest”)
North-Germanic:
:* Danish gæst (“guest, visitor”)
:* Faroese and Icelandic gestur (“guest”)
:* Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk gjest (“guest”)
:* Swedish gäst (“guest”)
East-Germanic:
:* Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (gasts, “guest”)
noun guests
- A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another. The guests were let in by the butler.
- A patron or customer in a hotel etc. Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.
- An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast. special guest
- A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
- Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
- An inquiline.
verb guests · guesting · guested
- To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast. During the '60s, he guested as off-beat characters on TV shows like "The Asphalt Jungle," "Bus Stop," and "The Detectives."
- As a musician: to play as a guest, providing an instrument that a band/orchestra does not normally have in its line up (for instance, percussion in a string band). Oldest son Trey, from Will's first marriage, paved the way for his sibling's stardom when he guested on his dad's hit rap album, Big Willie Style, lending some precocious dialogue to the beginning of "Just the Two of Us" and starring in the accompanying music video:
- To receive or entertain hospitably. Two Angels sent Two Heav'nly Scowts the Lord to Sodom sent ; downe , received and guested
Guest²
proper noun
- A surname. The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present
- A river in Virginia, United States, a tributary of the Clinch.
- An unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States.
- A visitor to any of the Disney theme parks
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: visiting, invitee, client, impermanent, temporary, node, hospitality, visitor, houseguest, lodger, visit, sleepover, host, guesthouse, captive, traveller
Translations
Every language
noun recipient of hospitality
| Español | huésped, visita, visitante, convidado, comensal |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 손님 sonnim, 하객 hagaek, 내빈 naebin, 방문객 bangmun'gaek |
| 日本語 | 客人 kyakujin, 客 kyaku, お客さん o-kyaku-san, 来客 raikyaku, 来賓 raihin |
| 中文 | 客人 kèrén, 來賓 /来宾 láibīn, 來客 /来客 láikè |
| हिन्दी | मेहमान mehmān, अतिथि atithi |
| Kiswahili | mgeni |
| Português | hóspede, convidado |
| Français | invité, invitée, hôte |
| Deutsch | Gast |
| Italiano | ospite, invitato, convitato |
| Ελληνικά | επισκέπτης episképtis |
| Română | oaspete, musafir, musafiră |
| Русский | гость gostʹ, го́стья góstʹja |
| Tiếng Việt | khách |
| العربية | ضَيْف ḍayf, زَائِر zāʔir |
| עברית | אוֹרֵחַ oréakh |
noun patron, customer
| Español | huésped, huéspeda, cliente, clienta |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 손님 sonnim, 고객 gogaek |
| 日本語 | 客 kyaku, お客さん o-kyaku-san, 顧客 kokyaku |
| 中文 | 顧客 /顾客 gùkè |
| Português | hóspede |
| Français | client, cliente |
| Deutsch | Gast |
| Italiano | cliente, ospite |
| Ελληνικά | πελάτης pelátis |
| Русский | посети́тель posetítelʹ, посети́тельница posetítelʹnica, постоя́лец postojálec, клие́нт klijént, клие́нтка klijéntka |
| Tiếng Việt | khách |
| العربية | زَبُون zabūn |
| עברית | אוֹרֵחַ oréakh |
noun invited performer
| Español | invitado, invitada |
|---|---|
| Português | convidado, convidada |
| Français | invité, invitée |
| Deutsch | Gast |
| Italiano | ospite |
| Ελληνικά | φιλοξενούμενος filoxenoúmenos, προσκεκλημένος proskekliménos |
| Русский | гость gostʹ, го́стья góstʹja |
| עברית | אוֹרֵחַ oréakh |
verb to appear as a guest
| Deutsch | gastieren |
|---|---|
| Ελληνικά | φιλοξενούμαι filoxenoúmai |
| Русский | гости́ть gostítʹ, быть в гостя́х bytʹ v gostjáx |
| עברית | התארח hit'aréakh |
Talk about this word "guest." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/guest. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. guest. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/guest "guest." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/guest.Cite this
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title = {guest},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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