Definition of guest

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Guest (n.) A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.

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Goliard :: Goliard (n.) A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs..
Welcome :: Welcome (n.) Kind reception of a guest or newcomer; as, we entered the house and found a ready welcome..
Dais :: Dais (n.) A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests..
Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) The seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state; particularly applied to the seizure, by a belligerent power, of debts due from its subjects to the enemy..
Inhospitable :: Inhospitable (a.) Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people..
Hostess :: Hostess (n.) A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house.
Bridestake :: Bridestake (n.) A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round..
Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court..
Cover :: Cover (n.) A tablecloth, and the other table furniture; esp., the table furniture for the use of one person at a meal; as, covers were laid for fifty guests..
Tavern :: Tavern (n.) A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities..
Harbor :: Harbor (n.) To afford lodging to; to enter as guest; to receive; to give a refuge to; indulge or cherish (a thought or feeling, esp. an ill thought)..
Transient :: Transient (a.) Staying for a short time; not regular or permanent; as, a transient guest; transient boarders..
Reception :: Reception (n.) The act or manner of receiving, esp. of receiving visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception..
Agistor :: Agistor (n.) Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker..
Guest :: Guest (n.) A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.
Coffeehouse :: Coffeehouse (n.) A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation..
Hospitate :: Hospitate (v. i.) To receive hospitality; to be a guest.
Dais :: Dais (n.) The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table..
Hospitable :: Hospitable (a.) Proceeding from or indicating kindness and generosity to guests and strangers; as, hospitable rites..
Carve :: Carve (v. i.) To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests..
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