guest

English

/ɡɛst/

noun
Definitions
  • A recipient of hospitality, specifically 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.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English gest (guest) derived from Old Norse gestr derived from Proto-Germanic *gastiz (guest, stranger) derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*gʰóstis

Gloss

stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality

Concept
Semantic Field

Kinship

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Emoji

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