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guest

[gest] / gɛst /
NOUN
person accommodated, given hospitality
Synonyms
STRONGEST
caller client companion customer inmate patron recipient tenant vacationer visitor
STRONG
bedfellow boarder company frequenter lodger mate partaker renter roomer sharer sojourner transient visitant
WEAK
habitué out-of-towner
Antonyms
STRONGEST
enemy manager opponent owner

Example Sentences

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The White House Correspondents’ Association is a trade group that hosts its own annual banquet and invites the president as a guest.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026

To use it, the guest just needs to upload a selfie and the technology generates face recognition data to identify them at the arena.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

His mountain retreat on Airbnb - where he's rated a "superhost" - includes guest reviews dubbing him "helpful", "attentive" and quick to respond.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

Meanwhile, those Lego-style memes almost made a guest appearance on one of music’s biggest stages.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

Penelope imagined she heard, not far off, the quiet breathing of a thirteenth, unseen and uninvited, guest.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood