guest – English noun declension

English noun forms of guest

Noun: guest
Singularguest
Pluralguests

Sample Sentences

  • The guests were let in by the butler.
  • We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.
  • special guest
  • The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.

Etymology

1. From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old English ġiest, both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”). Doublet of host, from Latin.
2. Cognates
3. West-Germanic:
4. :* Bavarian Gåst (“guest”)
5. :* Dutch gast (“guest”)
6. :* German Gast (“guest”)
7. :* Luxembourgish Gaascht (“guest”)
8. :* Vilamovian gost (“guest”)
9. :* Yiddish גאַסט (gast, “guest”)
10. North-Germanic:
11. :* Danish gæst (“guest, visitor”)
12. :* Faroese and Icelandic gestur (“guest”)
13. :* Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk gjest (“guest”)
14. :* Swedish gäst (“guest”)
15. East-Germanic:
16. :* Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (gasts, “guest”) See: Middle English Nouns 'gest', Old Norse Nouns 'gestr', Dutch Nouns 'gast', German Nouns 'Gast', Danish Nouns 'gæst', Swedish Nouns 'gäst', Gothic Nouns '𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃'.

Verbs referencing "guest"

German Nouns Gast, Latin Nouns hostis, Russian Nouns гость.