Examples of guest in a Sentence
Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 11 Apr. 2024
About 180 members and guests attended Tuesday's meeting at The Record event center in downtown Bentonville.
—Doug Thompson, arkansasonline.com, 10 Apr. 2024
Hillsboro has 4,000 pairs of eclipse glasses leftover Hillsboro, about an hour south of Fort Worth, was ready for over 60,000 guests to drop by for the special day.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2024
Cliffhanger, a new ride launching on forthcoming U.S. flagship World America next year, will allow guests to swing out over the ocean 160 feet above the water, the cruise line revealed Tuesday.
—Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
There is a fitness center and yoga pavilion close to the main entrance, but many guests choose to spend most of their fitness time jogging or walking on the beach.
—Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2024
Beyoncé tapped several notable guest vocalists for Cowboy Carter, including Willie Nelson and Post Malone, but perhaps the most notable is her own daughter, Rumi Carter.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2024
Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection guests, for example, can earn and use Marriott Bonvoy points.
—Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
Hollywood Cares Foundation Dinner Hollywood Unlocked CEO Jason Lee hosted an intimate dinner in West Hollywood on Tuesday in support of his Hollywood Cares Foundation, alongside guests Rihanna, Cardi B, Paris Hilton, Tiffany Haddish, Gary Vaynerchuk and Gigi Gorgeous.
—Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Mar. 2024
Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024
Gomez will guest star in the pilot opposite Henrie, who originally played her older brother Justin Russo, She is not expected to be a series regular.
—Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
A day after that, McAfee announced on-air that Rodgers, who typically guests on the show on Tuesdays, would not return this season.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
Images courtesy of Daniel Arnold for Gucci Then, at the Paris haute couture shows, Simone Rocha will become the sixth designer and only the second woman after Sacai’s Chitose Abe to guest design a Jean Paul Gaultier collection.
—Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2024
John Legend, Teigen’s husband, will also guest star in addition to appearances from Kumail Nanjiani, Regina Hall, Simu Liu and other celebrities.
—Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2023
While appearing on his SiriusXM radio show, Radio Andy, earlier this week, Andy Cohen revealed to guest Danny Pellegrino that the RHONJ cast was supposed to travel to the Berkshires in Massachusetts, but a fire ruined their plans.
—Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2023
Ever since Thalía invited Becky to guest on one of her songs back in 2015, the two have stayed close, reaching out to compliment each other and trade advice.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
During an episode of her daytime talk show this week, Clarkson spoke to guest Bowen Yang about Swift and Travis Kelce’s surprise Saturday Night Live appearance and the sketch lampooning the NFL’s newfound obsession with the couple.
—Vulture, 22 Oct. 2023
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Word History
Noun
Middle English gest, gyst, gust, gist "person to whom hospitality is extended, visitor, stranger," going back to Old English giest, gyst, gest, gæst (with Middle English g probably in part from Old Norse gestr), going back to Germanic *gasti- (whence also Old Frisian jest "guest," Old Saxon & Old High German gast "guest, stranger," Old Norse gestr, Gothic gasts "stranger") going back to dialectal Indo-European *ghost-i- "outsider, guest," whence also Old Church Slavic gostĭ "guest," Latin hostis "foreigner, stranger" (in early use), "enemy"
Note: An etymon limited to three western Indo-European branches. Further analysis of the word has been made on the basis of early use of Latin hostis, taken to mean, on the basis of the Law of the Twelve Tables, "outsider due the same right of ownership as a Roman citizen"; from the same base would be hostus "yield of olive oil from a single pressing" (narrowed from a presumed more general "yield, compensation"), the derived verb hostīre "to recompense, requite," and the noun hostia "sacrificial animal, sacrifice" ("recompense to the gods," perhaps originally feminine of an adjective *hostius, the deleted noun having designated an animal; see host entry 3). Ancestral *ghos-ti- could hypothetically be a derivative of an Indo-European verbal base *ǵhes- "take, give in exchange." With the loss in later Roman practice of the strict legal meaning, Latin hostis became restricted in meaning to "hostile outsider, enemy." This shift is noted by varro, who remarked that hostis was used by "our ancestors" in a sense now covered by peregrīnus (see pilgrim).
Verb
Middle English gesten, derivative of gest guest entry 1
Noun
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
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“Guest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guest. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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