資料來源 : pyDict
客人,賓客,顧客,旅客
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Guest \Guest\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without
compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
(b) An inquiline.
Guest \Guest\, n. [OE. gest, AS. g[ae]st, gest; akin to OS., D.,
& G. gust, Icel gestr, Sw. g["a]st, Dan. Gj["a]st, Goth.
gast, 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.
To cheer his gueste, whom he had stayed that night.
--Spenser.
True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest.
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. --Pope.
Guest \Guest\, v. t.
To receive or entertain hospitably. [Obs.] --Sylvester.
Guest \Guest\, v. i.
To be, or act the part of, a guest. [Obs.]
And tell me, best of princes, who he was That guested
here so late. --Chapman.
資料來源 : WordNet®
guest
adj : staying temporarily; "a visiting foreigner"; "guest
conductor" [syn: {visiting}, {guest(a)}]
guest
n 1: a visitor to whom hospitality is extended [syn: {invitee}]
2: United States journalist (born in England) noted for his
syndicated homey verse (1881-1959) [syn: {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 [syn: {node}, {client}]