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Etymology [ edit ] From Middle English gest Old Norse gestr Old English ġiest Proto-Germanic *gastiz Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis “ stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality ” ). Cognate with host
Pronunciation [ edit ] guest (plural guests
A recipient of hospitality , specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
The guests were let in by the butler.
1898 , Winston Churchill , chapter 5, in The Celebrity
We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.
A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.
An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast .
The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.
( zoology ) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite .( zoology ) An inquiline .
Translations [ edit ]
recipient of hospitality
Afrikaans: gas (af)
Albanian: mysafir (sq) m vizitor (sq) m
Arabic: ضَيْف m , f ḍayf )
Moroccan Arabic: ضِيف m ḍif )
Armenian: հյուր (hy) (hyur )
Aromanian: oaspe musafir
Asturian: güéspede m güéspeda f
Azeri: qonaq (az) , müsafir mehman
Baluchi: مہمان mihmán ), میمان memán )
Bashkir: ҡунаҡ qunaq )
Basque: ostalari
Bats: ჰ̡აშ h̡aš ), ჰ̡აშე̆ h̡ašĕ )
Belarusian: госць m hoscʹ ), го́сця f hóscja )
Bengali: অতিথি (bn) (ôtithi )
Bulgarian: гост (bg) m gost )
Burmese: ဧည့်သည် (my) (enya.sany )
Catalan: convidat m hoste m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 人客 jan4 haak3 ), 客人 haak3 jan4 )
Mandarin: 客人 (zh) (kèrén )
Min Dong: (please verify ) 人客 noing kat>noing ngat )
Min Nan: 人客 (zh-min-nan) (lâng-kheh )
Czech: host (cs) m
Danish: gæst (da) c
Dutch: gast (nl) m
Esperanto: gasto
Estonian: külaline
Faroese: gestur m
Finnish: vieras (fi)
French: invité(e) (fr) , hôte (fr) m , f
Friulian: forest ospit
Georgian: სტუმარი sṭumari )
German: Gast (de) m
Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 gasts
Greek: επισκέπτης (el) m episképtis )
Hebrew: אוֹרֵחַ (he) m oréakh )
Hindi: मेहमान (hi) m mehmān ), अतिथि (hi) m atithi )
Hungarian: vendég (hu)
Icelandic: gestur (is) m
Indonesian: tamu (id)
Isan: please add this translation if you can
Italian: ospite (it) m , 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 おきゃくさん, o-kyaku-san ), 来客 (ja) (らいきゃく, raikyaku )
Kazakh: қонақ (kk) (qonaq ), мейман meyman )
Khmer: ភ្ញៀវ (km) (pɲiəv )
Korean: 손님 (ko) (sonnim )
Kurdish:
Sorani: میوان (ku)
Kyrgyz: конок konok ), мейман meyman )
Lao: ແຂກ (lo) (khǣk )
Latgalian: gosts
Latin: hostis (la) c hospes m
Latvian: viesis m
Lithuanian: svečias m
Lü: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: го́стин m góstin ), го́стинка f góstinka ), гост m gost )
Malay: tetamu
Maltese: mistieden m
Maori: manuhiri
Mongolian: зочин (mn) (zočin )
Ngazidja Comorian: mdjeni class 1 /2
Northern Sami: guossi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gjest (no) m
Occitan: convidat
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: гость m gostĭ )
Old East Slavic: гость m gostĭ )
Old English: ġiest m
Old Norse: gestr m
Persian: مهمان (fa) (mehmân )
Polish: gość (pl) m
Portuguese: hóspede (pt) m , f
Romanian: oaspete (ro) m musafir (ro) m
Romansch: giast hosp
Russian: гость (ru) m gostʹ ), го́стья (ru) f góstʹja )
Sanskrit: अतिथि (sa) m atithi )
Sardinian: cumbidàu
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: гост m гошћа f
Roman: gost (sh) m gošća (sh) f
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: hosť m
Slovene: gost (sl) m gošća f gostja f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: gósć m
Upper Sorbian: hósć m
Spanish: huésped (es) m , f
Svan: მუშგვრი mušgvri )
Swahili: mgeni (sw) class m-wa
Swedish: gäst (sv) c
Tajik: меҳмон (tg) (mehmon )
Tatar: кунак (tt) (qunaq )
Telugu: అతిథి (te) (atithi )
Thai: แขก (th) (kɛ̀k )
Turkish: konuk (tr) , misafir (tr)
Turkmen: myhman
Tuvan: аалчы aalčı )
Ukrainian: гість m histʹ ), го́стя f hóstja )
Urdu: مہمان m mehmān )
Uyghur: مېھمان mëhman )
Uzbek: mehmon (uz)
Vietnamese: khách (vi) (客
Volapük: lotan (vo)
Walloon: priyî (wa) m invité m
Yiddish: גאַסט m gast )
Zazaki: meyman du
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
patron, customer
Italian: cliente (it) m , f ospite (it) m , f
Japanese: 客 (ja) (きゃく, kyaku ), ( honorific ) お客さん おきゃくさん, o-kyaku-san ), 顧客 (ja) (こきゃく, kokyaku )
Kurdish:
Sorani: میوان (ku)
Macedonian: го́стин m góstin )
Polish: gość (pl) m
Portuguese: hóspede (pt) m , f
Russian: посети́тель (ru) m posetítelʹ ), посети́тельница (ru) f posetítelʹnica ), постоя́лец (ru) m postojálec ) ( hotel ) клие́нт (ru) m klijént ), клие́нтка (ru) f klijéntka )
Slovene: gost (sl) m gostja f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: gósć m
Upper Sorbian: hósć m
Swedish: gäst (sv) c hotellgäst c
Vietnamese: khách (vi)
Zazaki: mışterı du , f du , n
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 )( transitive , obsolete ) To receive or entertain hospitably.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Sylvester to this entry?)
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