guest

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. visitor, company, caller. See sociality.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [One to whom hospitality is extended]

Syn. visitor, caller, house guest, dinner guest, visitant, company, partaker of hospitality, sharer, recipient of one's bounty, inmate, confidant, confidante, fellow, messmate, boon companion, bedfellow.

2. [One who is received for pay]

Syn. tenant, boarder, patron, customer, paying guest, roomer, habitué, sojourner, frequenter, lodger, renter.

See Synonym Study at visitor .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

visitor, company, caller, roomer, renter, boarder, lodger, client, customer. [Those who]

are often welcomest when they are gone.''—Shakespeare. A nuisance after three days.''—Plautus.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun A person or persons visiting one: company, visitant, visitor. See ACCOMPANIED.