guest

/ษกษ›st/

IPA: /G EH1 S T/

noun
  1. 1

    A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another.

    โ€œThe guests were let in by the butler.โ€

  2. 2

    A patron or customer in a hotel etc.

    โ€œGuests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.โ€

  3. 3

    An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.

    โ€œThe guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.โ€

  4. 4

    A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.

  5. 5

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

  6. 6

    An inquiline.

verb
  1. 1

    To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast

  2. 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. 3

    To receive or entertain hospitably.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guest