guest
/ɡɛst/ noun A1- A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another. · The guests were let in by the butler.
- 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. · special guest· The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.
- A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
- Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
- An inquiline.
Plural guests
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He has grown grey in the service, is a gentleman, a favoured guest in the most exalted houses, and, above all, a man whose patriotism is beyond suspicion.
Spencer, bustling her guests through the hall into the parlor, where a deadly chill struck on them as if the air had been strained so long through dark green, closely drawn blinds that it had lost every particle of warmth it had ever possessed.
This prospect of fresh festivity redoubled the hilarity of the guests to such a degree, that the elder Dantès, who, at the commencement of the repast, had commented upon the silence that prevailed, now found it difficult, amid the general din of voices, to obtain a moment’s tranquillity in which to drink to the health and prosperity of the bride and bridegroom.
“That, madame, is an official secret; but if you have any commissions for Paris, a friend of mine is going there tonight, and will with pleasure undertake them.” The guests looked at each other.
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