guest
♦♦ guest /g'est/ (guests)
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A guest is someone who is visiting you or is at an event because you have invited them.
She was a guest at the wedding...
Their guests sipped drinks on the veranda.
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A guest is someone who visits a place or organization or appears on a radio or television show because they have been invited to do so.
...a frequent chat show guest...
Dr Gerald Jeffers is the guest speaker...
They met when she made a guest appearance in the hit TV show Minder.
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A guest is someone who is staying in a hotel.
I was the only hotel guest...
Hotels operate a collection service for their guests from the airports.
4 [CONVENTION]
If you say be my guest to someone, you are giving them permission to do something.
If anybody wants to work on this, be my guest.guest book (guest books)
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A guest book is a book in which guests write their names and addresses when they have been staying in someone's house or in a hotel.guest house (guest houses)
also guesthouse
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A guest house is a small hotel. (BRIT)
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A guest house is a small house in the grounds of a large house, where visitors can stay. (AM)guest of hon|our (guests of honour)
in AM, use guest of honor
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If you say that someone is the guest of honour at a dinner or other social occasion, you mean that they are the most important guest.guest room (guest rooms)
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A guest room is a bedroom in a house or hotel for visitors or guests to sleep in.guest work|er (guest workers)
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A guest worker is a person, especially one from a poor country, who lives and works in a different country for a period.house guest (house guests)
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A house guest is a person who is staying at someone's house for a period of time.pay|ing guest (paying guests)
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A paying guest is a person who pays to stay with someone in their home, usually for a short time.
At that time my mother took in paying guests.
1 [N-COUNT]
A guest is someone who is visiting you or is at an event because you have invited them.
She was a guest at the wedding...
Their guests sipped drinks on the veranda.
2 [N-COUNT]
A guest is someone who visits a place or organization or appears on a radio or television show because they have been invited to do so.
...a frequent chat show guest...
Dr Gerald Jeffers is the guest speaker...
They met when she made a guest appearance in the hit TV show Minder.
3 [N-COUNT]
A guest is someone who is staying in a hotel.
I was the only hotel guest...
Hotels operate a collection service for their guests from the airports.
4 [CONVENTION]
If you say be my guest to someone, you are giving them permission to do something.
If anybody wants to work on this, be my guest.guest book (guest books)
[N-COUNT]
A guest book is a book in which guests write their names and addresses when they have been staying in someone's house or in a hotel.guest house (guest houses)
also guesthouse
1 [N-COUNT]
A guest house is a small hotel. (BRIT)
2 [N-COUNT]
A guest house is a small house in the grounds of a large house, where visitors can stay. (AM)guest of hon|our (guests of honour)
in AM, use guest of honor
[N-COUNT] usu sing
If you say that someone is the guest of honour at a dinner or other social occasion, you mean that they are the most important guest.guest room (guest rooms)
[N-COUNT]
A guest room is a bedroom in a house or hotel for visitors or guests to sleep in.guest work|er (guest workers)
[N-COUNT]
A guest worker is a person, especially one from a poor country, who lives and works in a different country for a period.house guest (house guests)
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A house guest is a person who is staying at someone's house for a period of time.pay|ing guest (paying guests)
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A paying guest is a person who pays to stay with someone in their home, usually for a short time.
At that time my mother took in paying guests.