guest

noun

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

A patron or customer in a hotel etc.

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

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

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

(zoology) An inquiline.

A visitor to any of the Disney theme parks

A surname.

A river in Virginia, United States, a tributary of the Clinch.

An unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States.

verb

(intransitive) To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast.

(intransitive) 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).

(transitive, obsolete) To receive or entertain hospitably.

Roots

ghostisguest- · Proto-Indo-European · stranger

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