In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
GUEST
node, client, guest
(noun) (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
guest, invitee
(noun) a visitor to whom hospitality is extended
guest
(noun) a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.
Guest, Edgar Guest, Edgar Albert Guest
(noun) United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
guest (plural guests)
A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
(computing) A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
(zoology) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
(zoology) An inquiline.
Verb
guest (third-person singular simple present guests, present participle guesting, simple past and past participle guested)
(intransitive) to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast
(intransitive) 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)
(transitive, obsolete) To receive or entertain hospitably.
Anagrams
• tegus
Proper noun
Guest
A surname.
A visitor to any of the Disney theme parks
Anagrams
• tegus
Source: Wiktionary
Guest, n. Etym: [OE. gest, AS. gæst, gest; akin to OS., D., & G. gust, Icel gestr, Sw. gäst, Dan. Gjäst, Goth. gast, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, but the root is unknown. Cf. Host an army, Hostile.]
1. A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay. To cheer his gueste, whom he had stayed that night. Spenser. True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Pope.
Guest, v. t.
Definition: To receive or entertain hospitably. [Obs.] Sylvester.
Guest, v. i.
Definition: To be, or act the part of, a guest. [Obs.] And tell me, best of princes, who he was That guested here so late. Chapman.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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