Antonyms for guest

Grammar : Noun

Spell : gest

Phonetic Transcription : gɛst

Definition of guest

Origin : Old English gæst, giest (Anglian gest) "guest; enemy; stranger," the common notion being "stranger," from Proto-Germanic *gastiz (cf. Old Frisian jest, Dutch gast, German Gast, Gothic gasts "guest," originally "stranger"), from PIE root *ghosti- "strange" (cf. Latin hostis "enemy," hospes "host" -- from *hosti-potis "host, guest," originally "lord of strangers" -- Greek xenos "guest, host, stranger;" Old Church Slavonic gosti "guest, friend," gospodi "lord, master").
Spelling evolution influenced by Old Norse cognate gestr (the usual sound changes from the Old English word would have yielded Modern English *yest). Phrase be my guest in the sense of "go right ahead" first recorded 1955.

noun person accommodated, given hospitality

Example sentences :

Emilia had gone for a few weeks to the mountains, with the household of which she was a guest.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

But we forget that the reader has not yet been made acquainted with the guest.
Extract from : « A Select Party (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

This fellow, who had offered to take money for a guest, was damned for life and branded.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

I will acquaint you with what passed at the general leave given me to be your guest.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

Grace took out of her bag a guest towel she was embroidering.
Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower

More I could add, but brevity is best;-- These are our claims to honour you as Guest.
Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson

Mrs. Roberts had already gone to see in person to the comfort of her guest.
Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden

I beg your pardon, sir, but may I ask if you are a guest of this house?
Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr

Then she went to the guest room to stand before the full-length mirror there.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

But her thawing did not save Saunders after the guest was gone.
Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various

Synonyms for guest

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