Guest Person Invited Staying ɡest Wedding I Paying

• we have guests staying this weekend.
• more than 100 wedding guests
• i went to the theatre club as helen's guest.
• he was the guest of honour (= the most important person invited to an event).

guest

1. a person that you have invited to your house or to a particular event that you are paying for
• We have guests staying this weekend.
• more than 100 wedding guests
• I went to the theatre club as Helen's guest.
• He was the guest of honour (= the most important person invited to an event).
• Liz was not on the guest list.
2. a person who is staying at a hotel, etc.
• We have accommodation for 500 guests.
• a paying guest (= a person who is living in a private house, but paying as if they were in a hotel)
• Guests should vacate their rooms by 10.30 a.m.
3. a famous person or performer who takes part in a television show or concert
• a guest artist/star/singer
• Our special guest tonight is…
• He made a guest appearance on the show.
4. a person who is invited to a particular place or organization, or to speak at a meeting
• The scientists are here as guests of our government.
• a guest speaker
5. used to give somebody permission to do something that they have asked to do
• ‘Do you mind if I use the phone?’ ‘Be my guest.’

Extra Examples

• Guest artists from all over Europe will take part in the concert.
• Movie star Matt Damon is one of the special guests on tonight’s show.
• Our next guest is a bona fide television star.
• She felt that she had to entertain her guests.
• She had invited six guests.
• She made a rare guest appearance on the programme.
• She tactfully discouraged their uninvited guests from staying longer.
• She was treated as an honoured guest.
• The athlete was chief guest at the schools sports day.
• The banquet was attended by 200 guests.
• The best man and his assistants welcomed the reception guests as they arrived.
• The best man welcomed the wedding guests as they arrived.
• The refugees were made to feel like unwanted guests in the country.
• When we have guests, they usually sleep in the study.
• You are always a welcome guest in our house.
• You’re the guest—you can choose what we watch.
• He did his best to make the guests feel at home.
• He was the ideal dinner party guest.
• How many guests are coming tonight?
• I got the feeling that this guest was particularly unwelcome.
• Li was there as the guest of the President.
• My father was the guest of honour at the dinner.
• She had invited over 100 guests.
• Some of the wedding guests were staying in the hotel.
• The accommodation secretary has a list of families who take paying guests.
• The guests gathered for dinner on the terrace.
• Their names were not on the guest list.

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old Norse gestr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gast and German Gast, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin hostis ‘enemy’ (originally ‘stranger’).