guest:
(plural: ‘guests‘; The opposite word in meaning to ‘guest’ is “host”; pronunciation: the letters ‘gue’ rhyme with the letters ‘ge’ in “get” — for the right pronunciation, please click here)
a guest given a red carpet welcome
a person who is in someone’s home by invitation for a short time as for a meal or to stay a few nights;
a person who is invited out and paid for at a theatre, restaurant, etc.;
a person who is lodging(staying) in/at a hotel or at someone’s home by paying money;
welcoming a guest in Hindu style
a member or a companion or friend of a member of a club, association, organisation, etc.;
a person who is invited to perform or speak in a show, usually on a radio or TV programme or at a ceremony;
a (important) person who visits some place of importance, such as a museum, art gallery, a club, etc.,
two guests checking in at a hotel
Each member of our club is allowed to bring a guest — a friend, colleague or relative, with them to its tenth anniversary bash.
A paying guest is a person, usually a student or a single person who’s got a job in a new place, who rents a small part of a house, usually with the owner living in the same building, along with the furniture, telephone, laundry and breakfast or the regular meals, just like a member of the family but paying some amount of money.
All the foreign guests at hotels are requested to leave their passports or travel documents with the management not only for the safety of the documents but also for police verification.
Our college is famous for inviting great personalities from all walks of life as guest speakers so that we the students get deeper understanding of the world around us from their speeches.
Since retirement, Widow Jose has taken in some students as paying guests so that she can send that money to her son who’s at a university in an other state doing his master’s degree.
