Definition of Guest

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Definition of Guest

Guest

A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.

To receive or entertain hospitably.

To be, or act the part of, a guest.

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

An inquiline.

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Guest Quotations

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Kahlil Gibran

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids.
Erma Bombeck

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
Aeschylus

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
Seamus Heaney

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.
William Shatner

You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.
Garry Shandling

My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.
Garry shandling

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
Titus Maccius Plautus

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Horace

Guest Translations

guest in Afrikaans is gas
guest in Finnish is vieras
guest in German is Gast
guest in Italian is ospite
guest in Latin is hospes
guest in Norwegian is gjest

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