| n. | 1. | A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay. |
| 2. | A lodger or a boarder at a hotel, lodging house, or boarding house. | |
| 3. | (Zool.) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite. | |
| v. t. | 1. | To receive or entertain hospitably. |
| v. i. | 1. | To be, or act the part of, a guest. |
| Noun | 1. | guest - a visitor to whom hospitality is extended Synonyms: invitee |
| 2. | Guest - United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959) Synonyms: Edgar Albert Guest, Edgar Guest | |
| 3. | guest - a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc. | |
| 4. | guest - (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network | |
| Adj. | 1. | guest - staying temporarily; "a visiting foreigner"; "guest conductor" Synonyms: visiting |
GUEST. A traveller who stays at an inn or tavern-with the consent of the
keeper: Bac. Ab. Inns, C 5; 8 Co. 32. And if, after having taken lodgings at
an inn, he leaves his horse there, and goes elsewhere to lodge, he is still
to be considered a guest. But not if he merely leaves goods for which the
landlord receives no compensation. 1 Salk. 888; 2 Lord Raym. 866; Cro. Jac.
188. The length of time a man is at an inn makes no difference, whether he
stays a day, or a week, or a month, or longer, so always, that, though not
strictly transient, he retains his character as a traveller. But if a person
comes upon a special contract to board and sojourn at an inn, he is not in
the sense of the law a guest, but a boarder. Bac. Ab. Inns, C. 5; Story,
Bailm. Sec. 477.
2. Innkeepers are generally liable for all goods belonging to the guest,
brought within the inn. It is not necessary that the goods should have been
in the special keeping of the innkeeper to male him liable. This rule is
founded on principles of public utility, to which all private considerations
ought to yield. 2 Kent, Com. 459; 1 Hayw. N. C. Rep. 40; 14 John. R. 175;
Dig. 4, 9, 1. Vide 8 Barb. & Ald. 283; 4 Maule & Selw. 306; 1 Holt's N. P.
209; 1 Salk. 387; S. C. Carth. 417; 1 Bell's Com. 469 Dane's Ab. Index, h.
t.; Yelv. 67, a; Smith's Leading Cases, 47; 8 Co. 32.