guest

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
2. A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
3. An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
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. (intransitive) To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast.
2. (intransitive) 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. (obsolete, transitive) To receive or entertain hospitably.

Conceptes

hoste

convidat

invitat

visitant

passatger

client

visitador

Sinònims

visitor

stranger

customer

caller

invitee

visitant

sojourner

company

client

foreigner

friend

foreign

host

node

visit

unknown

visitor’s arrival

invite

comer

newcomer

mobilian

outsider

partner

passenger

pax

servant

call

strange

bather

tourist

traveller

uncongenial

houseguest

attender

alien

👽

houseguest

house guest

deadhead

fare

new-comer

companionship

Traduccions

Gast

ospite

hôte

invité

huésped

gast

hóspede

misafir

visiteur

convive

Besucher

hospes

convidado

client

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɡɛst/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: gest

Cognat amb anglès antic: ġiest

Cognat amb alemany: Gast

Cognat amb noruec: gjest

In summary

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.

Frases

I’ll run down and secure my guest .

A series of guest hosts then replaced her .

Voice actors for these Higglytown heroes are frequently guest celebrities .

Former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo made a guest appearance on the album .

There are also guest appearances by Vegeta, Majin Boo and Son Goku.