guest

Meaning

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. 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. (obsolete) To receive or entertain hospitably.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɛst/

Etymology

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 German Gast (“guest”), Norwegian gjest (“guest”). Doublet of host, from Latin.

Sentences

I’ll run down and secure my guest .