Definition of guest

"guest" in the noun sense

1. guest, invitee

a visitor to whom hospitality is extended

2. Guest, Edgar Guest, Edgar Albert Guest

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

3. guest

a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.

4. node, client, guest

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

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Quotations for guest

Adversity, sage useful guest,
Severe instructor, but the best.
It is from thee alone we know
Justly to value things below. [ Somerville ]

A constant guest is never welcome. [ Proverb ]

She sits tormenting every guest,
Nor gives her tongue one moment's rest,
In phrases battered, stale, and trite,
Which modern ladies call polite. [ Swift ]

Beauty is everywhere a right welcome guest. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed.
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. [ Homer, Pope's Odyssey ]

Genius! thou gift of Heaven! thou Light divine!
Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!
Oft will the body's weakness check thy force,
Oft damp thy Vigour, and impede thy course;
And trembling nerves compel thee to restrain
Thy noble efforts, to contend with pain;
Or Want (sad guest!) will in thy presence come,
And breathe around her melancholy gloom:
To Life's low cares will thy proud thought confine,
And make her sufferings, her impatience, thine. [ Crabbe ]

It is an ill guest that never drinks to his hostess. [ Proverb ]

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master. [ Bovee ]

An infant when it gazes on the light,
A child the moment when it drains the breast,
A devotee when soars the Host in sight,
An Arab with a stranger for a guest,
A sailor when the prize has struck in fight,
A miser filling his most hoarded chest,
Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping
As they who watch over what they love while sleeping. [ Byron ]

It is more disgraceful to turn a guest out than not to admit him. [ Ovid ]

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest. [ Theophile Gautier ]

The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest. [ Laboulaye ]

The soul on earth is an immortal guest, compelled to starve at an unreal feast. [ Hannah More ]

Death shuns the naked throat and proffered breast; he flies when called to be a welcome guest. [ Sir Charles Sedley ]

To invite a guest is to take the responsibility of his happiness during his stay under our roof. [ Brillat-Savarin ]

At the banquet of life, an unfortunate guest, I one day appeared; now, I am dying. Dying! and none there are to shed a tear over the tomb that awaits me! [ Gilbert ]

Talking with a host is next best to talking with one's self.... He is wiser than to contradict his guest in any case; he lets him go on, he lets him travel. [ Thoreau ]

guest in Scrabble®

The word guest is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters guest:

GUEST
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word guest

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In guest

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guest in Words With Friends™

The word guest is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters guest:

GUEST
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word guest

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In guest

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Words within the letters of guest

2 letter words in guest (1 word)

3 letter words in guest (6 words)

4 letter words in guest (5 words)

5 letter words in guest (1 word)

guest + 1 blank (6 words)

Words containing the sequence guest

Words with guest in them (2 words)

Words that end with guest (3 words)

Word Growth involving guest

Shorter words in guest

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Longer words containing guest

guested

guesthouse guesthouses

guestimate guestimated

guestimate guestimates

guestimating

guestimation guestimations

guestimator guestimators

guesting

guestroom guestrooms

guests houseguests

houseguest houseguests

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