| guest | |
| 1. n. A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another. | |
| The guests were let in by the butler. | |
| 2. n. A patron or customer in a hotel etc. | |
| Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure. | |
| 3. n. An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast. | |
| The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer. | |
| 4. n. (zoology) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite. | |
| 5. n. (zoology) An inquiline. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) as a musician, to play as a guest, providing an instrument that a band/orchestra does not normally have in its line up (for instance, percussion in a string band) | |
| 8. v. (transitive, obsolete) To receive or entertain hospitably. | |
