guestとは

発音

• enPR: gĕst, IPA^(key): /ɡɛst/
• 韻: -ɛst
• Homophone: guessed

名詞

guest (複数形 guests)

1. A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another.

   The guests were let in by the butler.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:

     We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.

2. A patron or customer in a hotel etc.

   Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.

3. An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.

   The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.

4. (zoology) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
5. (zoology) An inquiline.

動詞

guest (三人称単数 現在形 guests, 現在分詞 guesting, 過去形および過去分詞形 guested)

1. (intransitive) to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast
2. (intransitive) as a musician, to play as a guest, providing an instrument that a band/orchestra does not normally have in its line up (for instance, percussion in a string band)
3. (transitive, obsolete) To receive or entertain hospitably.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Sylvester to this entry?)

派生語

アナグラム

• tegus