guest synonyms

guest

n.

  1. One to whom hospitality is extended

    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

    tenant, boarder, patron, customer, paying guest, roomer, habitué, sojourner, frequenter, lodger, renter. See syn. study at visitor.visitor.

Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus Copyright © 1999 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.