GUEST
What does "GUEST" mean?
A person invited to visit, stay, or be entertained at another's home, event, or establishment.
Meanings
- A person received and entertained by a host. We set an extra place for the dinner guest.
- A paying customer at a hotel or restaurant. The hotel can sleep four hundred guests.
- Invited to appear or perform on a single occasion. She was the guest speaker at the conference.
- To appear as a guest, especially on a show or recording. He guested on the late-night talk show last week. informal
Did you know?
- 'Guest', 'host', and 'hostile' grow from the same ancient root for 'stranger' - the word itself remembers that an outsider could become a friend or a foe.
Word origin
From Old Norse 'gestr', cognate with Old English 'giest'; it shares a root with Latin 'hostis' (stranger, enemy) and 'hospes' (host, guest), all from a Proto-Indo-European word for a stranger.
Remember it
A GUEST is a 'gUEST' on a quest to your house - both end in -EST, both arrive at your door.
A little poem
You give them the good chair, the warmer plate,
and learn how home looks through an outside gaze.
couplet
Wordplay
- Fish and guests both follow the same rule: after three days, you can tell.
What it teaches
Every guest is a borrowed stranger: how you treat the temporary reveals the permanent in you.
Quick facts
What does GUEST mean?
A person invited to visit, stay, or be entertained at another's home, event, or establishment.
Is GUEST a valid word?
Yes — GUEST is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is GUEST?
GUEST has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does GUEST come from?
From Old Norse 'gestr', cognate with Old English 'giest'; it shares a root with Latin 'hostis' (stranger, enemy) and 'hospes' (host, guest), all from a Proto-Indo-European word for a stranger.
What can GUEST teach us?
Every guest is a borrowed stranger: how you treat the temporary reveals the permanent in you.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.