Word Meanings - GUEST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

gust, Icel gestr, Sw. gäst, Dan. Gjäst, Goth. gast, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, 1. A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained

Additional info about word: GUEST

gust, Icel gestr, Sw. gäst, Dan. Gjäst, Goth. gast, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GUEST)

• Conjecture guest
• divination
• hypothesis
• theory
• notion
• surmise
• supposition

Related words: (words related to GUEST)

• SURMISE
  surmis, to impose, accuse; sur + mettre to put, set, L. 1. A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy. double honor gain From his surmise proved
• CONJECTURER
  One who conjectures. Hobbes.
• NOTIONATE
  Notional.
• CONJECTURE
  An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. He would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing
• THEORY
  1. A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation. Note: "This word is employed by English writers in a very loose and improper sense. It is with them usually
• GUEST
  gust, Icel gestr, Sw. gäst, Dan. Gjäst, Goth. gast, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, 1. A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained
• NOTIONIST
  One whose opinions are ungrounded notions. Bp. Hopkins.
• DIVINATION
  1. The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means. There shall not be found among you any one that . . . useth divination, or an observer of times, or an
• NOTION
  1. Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable or definable by marks or notæ. What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume
• GUEST ROPE
  The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
• NOTIONALITY
  A notional or groundless opinion. Glanvill.
• SURMISER
  One who surmises.
• GUESTWISE
  In the manner of a guest.
• NOTIONAL
  1. Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions. 2. Existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical. Discourses of speculative and notional things. Evelyn. 3. Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical;
• NOTIONALLY
  In mental apprehension; in conception; not in reality. Two faculties . . . notionally or really distinct. Norris.
• SUPPOSITION
  under, a substitution, fr. supponere, suppositium, to put under, to substitute. The word has the meaning corresponding to suppose. See 1. The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be
• SUPPOSITIONAL
  Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed. South.
• HYPOTHESIS
  A tentative theory or supposition provisionally adopted to explain certain facts, and to guide in the investigation of others; hence, frequently called a working hypothesis. Syn. -- Supposition; assumption. See Theory. Nebular hypothesis. See under
• VORTEX THEORY
  The theory, advanced by Thomson on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid.
• DINGDONG THEORY
  The theory which maintains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first
• GERM THEORY
  The theory that living organisms can be produced only by the development of living germs. Cf. Biogenesis, Abiogenesis. 2. The theory which attributes contagious and infectious diseases, suppurative lesions, etc., to the agency of germs.
• PRESURMISE
  A surmise previously formed. Shak.
• PRESUPPOSITION
  1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
• SIDE-CHAIN THEORY
  A theory proposed by Ehrlich as a chemical explanation of immunity phenomena. In brief outline it is as follows: Animal cells and bacteria are complex aggregations of molecules, which are themselves complex. Complex molecules react with one another
• TONGUESTER
  One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
• FERMENTATION THEORY
  The theory which likens the course of certain diseases (esp. infectious diseases) to the process of fermentation, and attributes them to the organized ferments in the body. It does not differ materially from the accepted germ theory .
• PRENOTION
  A notice or notion which precedes something else in time; previous notion or thought; foreknowledge. Bacon.
• MISCONJECTURE
  A wrong conjecture or guess. Sir T. Browne.