“guest”在英语中的释义

noun

1. A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.

   • The guests were let in by the butler.

2. A patron or customer in a hotel etc.

   • Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.

3. An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.

   • special guest
   • The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.

4. (computing) A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.

5. (zoology) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.

6. (zoology) An inquiline.

verb

1. (intransitive) To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast.

2. (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).

3. (transitive, obsolete) To receive or entertain hospitably.