guest

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Synonyms: quest, gust, gest, guess, geest, ghest, guist, ouest, wuest, gues, gunst

Antonyms: quest, gust, gest, guess, geest, ghest, guist, ouest, wuest, gues, gunst

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Noun

1. A [[recipient]] of [[hospitality]], especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
2. A [[patron]] or [[customer]] in a [[hotel]] etc.
3. An [[invited]] [[visitor]] or performer to an [[institution]] or to a [[broadcast]].
4. {{lb|en|computing}} A [[user]] given temporary [[access]] to a [[system]] despite not having an [[account]] of their own.
5. {{lb|en|zoology}} Any [[insect]] that lives in the [[nest]] of another without [[compulsion]] and usually not as a [[parasite]].
6. {{lb|en|zoology}} An [[inquiline]].

Verb

1. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[appear]] as a guest, especially on a broadcast.
2. {{lb|en|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]]).
3. {{lb|en|transitive|obsolete}} To receive or entertain hospitably.

Proper noun

1. {{surname|en}}.
2. {{place|en|river|s/Virginia|c/USA}}, a tributary of the [[Clinch]].
3. {{place|en|ucomm|co/DeKalb County|s/Alabama|c/USA}}.
4. A visitor to any of the [[Disney]] [[theme park]]s

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