guest
A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of…A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
» We're having some guests over this evening.
Wir haben heute Abend ein paar Gäste.
Цього вечора у нас будуть гості.
Meaning
6 sensesA recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
The guests were let in by the butler.
Gast
гостьgostʹ, го́стьяgóstʹja
гістьhistʹ, го́стяhóstja
A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.
Gast
посети́тельposetítelʹ, посети́тельницаposetítelʹnica, постоя́лецpostojálec
a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.
An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
special guest
The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.
Gast
гостьgostʹ, го́стьяgóstʹja
гістьhistʹ, го́стяhóstja
A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
An inquiline.
Examples
913 sentencesWe're having some guests over this evening.
Цього вечора у нас будуть гості.
deWir haben heute Abend ein paar Gäste.
Tom is a guest in our home.
Том гість у нашому домі.
I plan to invite a lot of guests to the opening ceremony.
Планую запросити багатьох гостей на церемонію відкриття.
ruЯ планирую пригласить много гостей на церемонию открытия.
Tom is our guest.
Том — наш гість.
ruТом - наш гость.
deTom ist unserer Gast.
Tom is a guest.
Том гість.
ruТом - гость.
deTom ist ein Gast.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old EnglFrom Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old English ġiest, both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”). Doublet of host, from Latin.
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Forms
plural: guestsSynonyms
5 synonyms- a visitor to whom hospitality is extended:invitee
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- (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network:nodeclient
Collocations
12 patterns- the guest room
- guest room
- the guest list
- how many guests
- is our guest
- guest list
- all the guests
- our guests are
- guests tonight
- many guests
- have a guest
- on the guest