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# guest

«guest» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who is invited to your home, to a party or to an…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (guest, guests)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A guest is a person who is invited to your home, to a party or to an event. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guest/#m1)

2) A guest is also a person staying at a hotel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guest/#m2)

3) A guest on a show is a visitor who comes to talk or perform. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guest/#m3)

4) «Be my guest» means «go ahead, help yourself». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guest/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

People counted at a party, often to share food or seats among them. In everyday life and manners: greet your guests, offer them a drink, say thank you when you are a guest. In stories: a surprise guest arrives. Phrases: «guest room», «special guest», «guest list», «be my guest».

### examples

- 24 guests came to the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guest/#x1)
- Each guest gets 2 slices of cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guest/#x2)
- Tables seat 6 guests each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guest/#x3)
- 5 more guests arrived late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guest/#x4)
- We had a guest speaker at school today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guest/#x5)
- Grandpa sleeps in the guest room when he visits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guest/#x6)
- The hotel has 80 guests this weekend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guest/#x7)
- A good guest says thank you before going home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guest/#x8)
- And who were these distinguished guests? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guest/#x9)

### note

Guests are the number of people; «each guest gets» means multiply, «guests per table» means divide (and round up for tables). Trap: remember to count the host if the question says so. Do not confuse with «guessed» (past of guess), which sounds the same.

### In the corpora

- [Hopes are not news: "a special guest" at assembly does not mean the singer everybody wants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/7/)
- [The guests go home with pockets full of treats for their little brothers and sisters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/44-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming/11/)
- [Then he heaves a long, long sigh, flattens his hair down neatly, and goes quietly downstairs to his guests.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/1/)
- ["Powder room" means a small toilet for guests in a house, mostly in the US.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/6-toilet-words/7/)
- ["Plus-one" means the guest or partner you are allowed to bring to an event.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «guest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.