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The correct spelling is guests.
How to pronounce guests
/ɡɛsts/
nounIPA: /ɡɛsts/
Say it like: Gue-sts
The correct spelling is guests. A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another. For example: "The guests were let in by the butler."
Usage Examples
“The guests were let in by the butler.”
“Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.”
“The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
- 2.A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
- 3.An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
- 4.A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
- 5.Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
verb
- 1.To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast
- 2.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.To receive or entertain hospitably.
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