guest
guest is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.1. 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.
- 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- acquaintance
- advocate
- all
- ally
- alter
- ambo
- amigo
- and
- associate
- auxiliary
- bedfellow
- best
- boon
- bosom
- casual
- chamber
- childhood
- chum
- classman
- classmate
- colleague
- companion
- compatriot
- compeer
- comrade
- confidante
- confrere
- copartner
- countryman
- crony
- divine
- ego
- familiar
- fast
- fautor
- favorer
- fellow
- friend
- genius
- good
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Steward: Jason Burns