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Guest | Guest \Guest\ (g[e^]st), n. [OE. gest, AS. g[ae]st, gest; akin to OS., D., & G. gast, Icel. gestr, Sw. g["a]st, Dan. Gj["a]st, Goth. gasts, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, but the root is unknown. Cf. {Host} an army, {Hostile}.] 1. A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay. [1913 Webster] To cheer his guests, whom he had stayed that night. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. A lodger or a boarder at a hotel, lodging house, or boarding house. [1913 Webster] 3. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite. (b) An inquiline. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
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