D defs.my
Entry 5 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Guest

/(gĕst)/ · IPA /ɡɛst/
01 n. A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.
  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 guests, 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. 2.
    A lodger or a boarder at a hotel, lodging house, or boarding house.
  3. 3.
    Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.(Zool.)
02 v. t. To receive or entertain hospitably.
  1. 1.
    To receive or entertain hospitably.[Obs.]
03 v. i. To be, or act the part of, a guest.
  1. 1.
    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.