Sekirov Dictionary

guest

/ɡɛst/

noun 6
verb 3
forms 3
phrases 1

noun6

•
a person who has been asked to visit or stay at someone else's home
- The guests were let in by the butler.
•
A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
- Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.
•
An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
- The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.
A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
An inquiline.

verb3

•
To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast.
- During the '60s, he guested as off-beat characters on TV shows like "The Asphalt Jungle," "Bus Stop," and "The Detectives." — 1990
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).
•
(no longer used) To receive or entertain hospitably.
- Two Angels sent Two Heav'nly Scowts the Lord to Sodom sent ; downe , received and guested — 1608

forms

guested · guesting · guests

Phrases with guest

be my guest
Do as you wish; go ahead; help yourself; go for it!

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