Usually means: Visitor invited for a purpose.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word guest:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Guest, guest: Merriam-Webster
  2. guest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. guest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. guest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Guest, guest: Vocabulary.com
  6. Guest, guest: Wordnik
  7. guest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Guest, guest: Wiktionary
  9. guest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. guest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. guest: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Guest, guest: Dictionary.com
  13. guest: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Guest (album), Guest (surname), Guest, The Guest (TV series), The Guest (album), The Guest (film), The Guest (short story), The Guest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Guest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. guest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. guest: Rhymezone
  18. guest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. guest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Guest: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. guest: FreeDictionary.org
  22. guest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. guest: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. guest: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. guest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  26. guest: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. guest: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. guest: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. guest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. GUEST: Acronym Finder
  3. guest: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Guest: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. guest: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See guesting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
noun:  A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
noun:  An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
noun:  (computing) A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
noun:  (zoology) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
noun:  (zoology) An inquiline.
verb:  (intransitive) To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast.
verb:  (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).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To receive or entertain hospitably.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A river in Virginia, United States, a tributary of the Clinch.
noun:  A visitor to any of the Disney theme parks

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