Guest

Definition of Guest

Pronunciation: gĕst

n.	1.	A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay. To cheer his guests, whom he had stayed that night. - Spenser. True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. - Pope.
	2.	A lodger or a boarder at a hotel, lodging house, or boarding house.
	3.	(Zool.) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
v. t.	1.	To receive or entertain hospitably.
v. i.	1.	To be, or act the part of, a guest. And tell me, best of princes, who he was That guested here so late. - Chapman.

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