What does "guest" mean?
Guest: 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.
Additional senses
- 2.To receive or entertain hospitably. [Obs.] Sylvester.
- 3.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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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