guest
guests
If you invite a friend to your home, she is your guest. You might announce to your parents that you've invited seven guests for Thanksgiving.
Someone who's visiting, or who's been asked to come, is a guest. If your next door neighbor comes over for lunch, she's a guest, and every one of the two hundred people you invite to a wedding is also a guest. You're often referred to as a guest when you stay at a hotel, too. The Old English root of guest is gæst, "a stranger" or "an accidental guest."
Definitions of guest
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a visitor to whom hospitality is extended
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synonyms:
invitee
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types:
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guest of honor
the person in whose honor a gathering is held
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house guest, houseguest
a guest entertained in your house
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wedding guest
a guest at a wedding
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guest of honor
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a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.
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types:
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no-show
a guest who fails to notify a hotel or restaurant when canceling a reservation
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overnighter
a guest who stays overnight
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no-show
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(computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
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type of:
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computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system
a machine for performing calculations automatically
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computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system
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