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What's The Definition Of Guest?

\Guest\, n. [OE. gest, AS. g[ae]st, gest; akin to OS., D., & G. gust, Icel gestr, Sw. g["a]st, Dan. Gj["a]st, Goth. gast, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, but the root is unknown. Cf. {Host} an army, {Hostile}.] 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 gueste, whom he had stayed that night. --Spenser. True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. --Pope.
\Guest\, v. t. To receive or entertain hospitably. [Obs.] --Sylvester.
\Guest\, v. i. To be, or act the part of, a guest. [Obs.] And tell me, best of princes, who he was That guested here so late. --Chapman.
\Guest\, n. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite. (b) An inquiline.