guest
noun
[ ɡɛst ]
• a person who is invited to visit someone's home or attend a particular social occasion.
• "I have two guests coming to dinner tonight"
• a person staying at a hotel or guest house.
• "a reduction for guests staying seven nights or more"
Similar:
patron,
client,
person staying,
boarder,
lodger,
resident,
tenant,
paying guest,
PG,
roomer,
• a small invertebrate that lives unharmed within an ants' nest.
guest
verb
• appear as a temporary or visiting performer or participant in a television or radio programme or other entertainment.
• "he guested on the show two weeks ago"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old Norse gestr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gast and German Gast, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin hostis ‘enemy’ (originally ‘stranger’).
