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guest 音标拼音: [g'ɛst] n. 客人,宾客,顾客,旅客 客人,宾客,顾客,旅客 guest n 1: a visitor to whom hospitality is extended [ synonym: { guest}, { invitee}] 2: United States journalist ( born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse ( 1881- 1959) [ synonym: { Guest}, { Edgar Guest}, { Edgar Albert Guest}] 3: a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc. 4: ( computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network [ synonym: { node}, { client}, { guest}] Guest \ Guest\, v. t. To receive or entertain hospitably. [ Obs.] -- Sylvester. [ 1913 Webster]
Guest \ Guest\, v. i. To be, or act the part of, a guest. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] And tell me, best of princes, who he was That guested here so late. -- Chapman. [ 1913 Webster]
Guest \ Guest\ ( g[ e^] st), n. [ OE. gest, AS. g[ ae] st, gest; akin to OS., D., & G. gast, Icel. gestr, Sw. g[ aum] st, Dan. Gj[ aum] st, Goth. gasts, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, but the root is unknown. Cf. { Host} an army, { Hostile}.] 1. A visitor; a person received and entertained in one' s house or at one' s table; a visitor entertained without pay. [ 1913 Webster] To cheer his guests, whom he had stayed that night. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] True friendship' s laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A lodger or a boarder at a hotel, lodging house, or boarding house. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Zool.) ( a) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite. ( b) An inquiline. [ Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
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