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guest
What does guest mean?
guest (noun): a recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use guest in a sentence?
- The guests were let in by the butler. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce guest?
/ɡɛst/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does guest come from?
From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old English ġiest, both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “guest” mean?
a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
Not quite: that's what starvation means.
a recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another
Right! That's what “guest” means.
an opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent
Not quite: that's what hole means.
that which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything
Not quite: that's what portion means.
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