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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

guest / gest/ • n. a person who is invited to visit the home of or take part in a function organized by another: I have two guests coming to dinner tonight | [as adj.] a guest bedroom. ∎ a person invited to participate in an official event: the bishop went to Cuba as a guest of the Catholic Church | [as adj.] a guest speaker. ∎ a person invited to take part in a radio or television program, sports event, or other entertainment: a regular guest on the morning show | [as adj.] a guest appearance. ∎ a person lodging at a hotel or boardinghouse: a reduction for guests staying seven nights or more. ∎ a customer at a restaurant. ∎ Entomol. a small invertebrate that lives unharmed within an ants' nest. • v. [intr.] inf. appear as a guest: he guested on one of her early albums. PHRASES: be my guest inf. please do: May I choose the restaurant? Be my guest! guest of honor the most important guest at an occasion. ORIGIN: Middle English: from Old Norse gestr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gast and German Gast, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin hostis ‘enemy’ (originally ‘stranger’).

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

guest XIII. — ON. gestr; superseding OE. ġ(i)est = OS., OHG. (Du., G.) gast, Goth. gasts :- Gmc. *ðastiz :- IE. *ghostis, repr. also by L. hostis enemy, orig. stranger, OSl. gostǐ guest, friend, and perh. by Gr. xénos stranger.

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A Dictionary of Computing | 2004 | | Copyright

guest A user who is able to log into a site without the use of a password.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

guest •abreast, arrest, attest, beau geste, behest, bequest, best, blessed, blest, breast, Brest, Bucharest, Budapest, celeste, chest, contest, crest, digest, divest, guest, hest, infest, ingest, jest, lest, Midwest, molest, nest, northwest, pest, prestressed, protest, quest, rest, self-addressed, self-confessed, self-possessed, southwest, suggest, test, Trieste, unaddressed, unexpressed, unimpressed, unpressed, unstressed, vest, west, wrest, zest •manifest • talkfest • Hammerfest •Almagest • backrest • armrest •redbreast • headrest • imprest •chimney breast • footrest • firecrest •incest • palimpsest • unprocessed •road test • undervest • conquest

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