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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