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noun

Guest n.

A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay. "To cheer his guests, whom he had stayed that night." "True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."

A lodger or a boarder at a hotel, lodging house, or boarding house.

(Zool.)

(a)

Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.

(b)

An inquiline.

verb

Guest v. t. To receive or entertain hospitably. (Obs.)

Guest v. i. To be, or act the part of, a guest. (Obs.) "And tell me, best of princes, who he was That guested here so late."

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"Guest" Quotes from Famous Books

... you most sincerely for your almost drowned guest. Fortune seems to delight in throwing poor Louisas in Your Way, that you may exercise your unbounded charity and benevolence. Adieu! pray write. I need not write to you to pray; but I wish, when your knees have what the common people call a worky-day, you would employ your hands ...

— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole

... nodded the guest, smiling. "But I'll pick him up some time to-night. I suppose they are on the track of some of the fellows who have been raising trouble ...

— The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers • Frank Gee Patchin

... Pedro might marry Agnes. In fine, she so incens'd the jealous Don Alvaro's Jealousy, that he could not hinder himself from running immediately to the King, with the discovery of all he knew, and all he guest, and who, he had the pleasure to find, was infinitely inrag'd at the News. 'My dear Alvaro, said the King, you shall instantly marry this dangerous Beauty: And let Possession assure your Repose and mine. If I have protected you on other Occasions, ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume V • Aphra Behn

... gilt—the point is, could not you, in your land of wooden houses, get a manufacturer to take the idea and manufacture them at a venture, so that I could get two or three hundred pieces or so at a moderate figure? You see, suppose you entertain an honoured guest, when he goes he leaves his name in gilt letters on your walls; an infinity of fun and decoration can be got out of hospitable and festive mottoes; and the doors of every room can be beautified by the legend of their names. I really think there is something in the idea, and you might be able to ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... contented but jovial. For two whole years he remained in England, apparently accomplishing nothing. These hours of leisure he devoted to the enjoyment of fashionable, intellectual and scientific society. No man could be a more welcome guest, in such elevated circles, for no man could enjoy more richly the charms of such society, or could contribute more liberally to its fascination. Electricity was still a very popular branch of natural science. The brilliant experiments ...

— Benjamin Franklin, A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago - American Pioneers and Patriots Series • John S. C. Abbott

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