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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, replacing Old English ġiest.
Pronunciation [edit]
guest (plural guests)
- a recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another
- a patron or customer in a hotel etc.
- an invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast
Translations [edit]
recipient of hospitality
- Afrikaans: gas (af)
- Albanian: mysafir m, vizitor (sq)
- Arabic: ضيف (ar) (ḍaif) m
- Armenian: հյուր (hy) (hyur)
- Aromanian: oaspe (rup), musafir (rup)
- Baluchi: مہمان (mihmán), میمان (memán)
- Basque: gonbidatu (eu)
- Belarusian: госць (be) (hosc’) m
- Bulgarian: гост (bg) (gost) m
- Burmese: ဧည့်သည် (my)
- Catalan: convidat (ca) m, hoste (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 客人 (cmn) (kèrén)
- Min Nan: 人客 (nan) (lâng-kheh)
- Czech: host (cs) m
- Danish: gæst (da) c
- Dutch: gast (nl) m
- Esperanto: gasto (eo)
- Estonian: külaline (et)
- Faroese: gestur (fo) m
- Finnish: vieras (fi)
- French: invité(e), hôte m and f
- Friulian: forest, ospit
- Georgian: სტუმარი (ka) (stumari)
- German: Gast (de) m, Gästin (de) f
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (gasts)
- Hebrew: אורח (he) (ore'akh) m
- Hindi: मेहमान (hi) (mehmān) m, अतिथि (hi) (atithi)
- Hungarian: vendég (hu)
- Icelandic: gestur (is) m
- Italian: ospite (it) m and f, invitato (it) m, convitato (it) m
- Japanese: 客人 (ja) (きゃくじん, kyakujin), 客 (ja) (きゃく, kyaku), (honorific) お客さん (ja) (おきゃくさん, o-kyaku-san), 来客 (ja) (らいきゃく, raikyaku)
- Korean: 손님 (ko) (sonnim)
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patron, customer
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- Icelandic: gestur (is) m
- Italian: cliente (it) m and f, ospite (it) m and f
- Japanese: 客 (ja) (きゃく, kyaku), (honorific) お客さん (ja) (おきゃくさん, o-kyaku-san), 顧客 (ja) (こきゃく, kokyaku)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: میوان
- Macedonian: гостин (mk) (góstin) m
- Polish: gość (pl) m
- Russian: посетитель (ru) (posetítel’) m, посетительница (ru) (posetítel’nica) f, постоялец (ru) (postojálec) m (hotel), клиент (ru) (klijént) m, клиентка (ru) (klijéntka) f
- Slovene: gost (sl) m, gostja f
- Swedish: gäst (sv) c, hotellgäst (sv) c
- Vietnamese: khách (vi)
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guest (third-person singular simple present guests, present participle guesting, simple past and past participle guested)
- (intransitive) to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast
- (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)
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