# guest

Pronunciation: say "GEST" /ɡɛst/

## Noun

1. A person who receives hospitality, especially one staying by invitation at someone else's home.
   - Simple: Someone you invite to stay at your home or come to a party.
   - _The guest arrived an hour early and helped set the table._
   - _Our guests stayed until midnight, reluctant to leave the warm fire._
2. A person invited to visit an institution or to appear or perform on a broadcast.
   - Simple: A person invited to take part in a show, or to visit a place like a school.
   - _The talk show booked a famous chef as its guest for Friday._
   - _Tonight's musical guest performed two songs before the interview._
3. A paying customer staying at a hotel or similar establishment.
   - Simple: Someone who stays at a hotel and pays for a room.
   - _Guests at the resort enjoyed complimentary access to the spa._
   - _The front desk greeted each guest with a warm welcome._
5. Someone given temporary use of a computer system or network despite having no account on it.
   - Simple: A person who can use a computer or website for a short time without their own account.
   - _She signed in as a guest to view the shared document._
   - _Guest accounts on the network expire after a single session._

## Verb

4. To appear or perform as an invited guest, for example on a broadcast, with a band, or for a team that is not one's own.
   - Simple: To take part as an invited guest, such as on a TV show or with another band.
   - _The director agreed to guest on a popular podcast._
   - _He guested on three different talk shows during the tour._

## Verb

6. To receive and entertain someone with hospitality. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To welcome and take care of someone as a visitor in your home.

## Other meanings

- (noun) A virtual machine or operating system running within another computer system, the host, on hardware that the host simulates.
- (noun) An animal, such as an insect, that lives in the nest, burrow or home of another species, usually without harming it.

## Origin

From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or merged with Old English ġiest; both go back to Proto-Germanic *gastiz and Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis ("stranger, guest, host"). It is related to German Gast, Dutch gast and Swedish gäst, and is a doublet of host, which came through Latin.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/guest (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).