guest
/ɡɛst/
noun
- 1
A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
“The guests were let in by the butler.”
- 2
A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
“Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.”
- 3
An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
“The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.”
- 4
A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
- 5
Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
- 6
An inquiline.
verb
- 1
To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast
- 2
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)
- 3
To receive or entertain hospitably.
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