GUEST (guest)

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Irregular inflected form: guest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Guest mean? 

• GUEST (noun)
  The noun GUEST has 4 senses:

1. a visitor to whom hospitality is extended

2. United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959)

3. a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.

4. (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network

  Familiarity information: GUEST used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUEST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A visitor to whom hospitality is extended

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

guest; invitee

Hypernyms ("guest" is a kind of...):

visitant; visitor (someone who visits)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "guest"):

guest of honor (the person in whose honor a gathering is held)

house guest; houseguest (a guest entertained in your house)

wedding guest (a guest at a wedding)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edgar Albert Guest; Edgar Guest; Guest

Instance hypernyms:

journalist (a writer for newspapers and magazines)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("guest" is a kind of...):

client; customer (someone who pays for goods or services)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "guest"):

no-show (a guest who fails to notify a hotel or restaurant when canceling a reservation)

overnighter (a guest who stays overnight)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

client; guest; node

Hypernyms ("guest" is a kind of...):

computer; computing device; computing machine; data processor; electronic computer; information processing system (a machine for performing calculations automatically)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Holonyms ("guest" is a part of...):

computer network ((computer science) a network of computers)

 Context examples 

Laurie went away, and his guest amused herself in her own way.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My affection for my guest increases every day.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I was almost in consternation, so little had I expected any guest from the blocked-up vale that night.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

No, my friend, you might find me a dangerous guest.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These are what one may call the private guests.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient believe that unwelcome guests are living in his/her house?

(NPI - Unwelcome Guests are Living in His/Her House, NCI Thesaurus)

I should be very glad if you will make one of my guests.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At ten o'clock, while the hotel guests slept, the two laundrymen sweated on at "fancy starch" till midnight, till one, till two.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I might remind you that I found this cabin first and that you are my guests.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“You will please stay on deck, Miss Brewster,” Wolf Larsen said, as he started forward to meet his guest.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)