I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dinner guest
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The dinner guests began arriving at about seven o'clock.
a guest appearance (= an appearance by a famous person on a TV show or at a musical event, in addition to the people who usually take part )
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He made several guest appearances on the show in the mid-60s.
a guest list (= a list of people invited somewhere )
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the guest list for the wedding reception
a hotel guest
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Hotel guests have free use of the gym and pool.
a wedding guest
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All the wedding guests laughed.
guest book
guest room
guest spot
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a guest spot on ‘The Tonight Show’
guest worker
honored guest
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I was treated like an honored guest .
house guest
receive guests/visitors
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She isn’t well enough to receive visitors yet.
the guest speaker
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The guest speaker will be the Secretary of State for Health.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
other
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Nor did the other guests seem to suspect anything.
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Members are invited to bring wives or husbands and other guests .
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Jehana had completed her remarks while there was still noise to cover her more explicit comments, but other guests had not.
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It's the other guests who need your attention.
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The platform party mingled with the other guests before all sat down to an excellent table buffet luncheon.
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When Richard had gone she sat watching the other guests .
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Surely Tom would have rejoined the other guests and forgotten all about her by now?
special
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Yarnspinning with special guest Jack McCann.
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A Friday show for service members' families, the handicapped and special guests also is planned.
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One top name special guest band has yet to be announced, completing the line-up at.
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A special guest yesterday was Tenaya Becker, a great-granddaughter of Robert Daley, who settled the property in 1869.
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Prince Charles will be a special guest at the exhibition.
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Musically, he was heading for a standard, slightly throw-away show, when the first special guest appeared.
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More than 200 special guests gathered for a dinner nearby.
■ NOUN
appearance
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Yet during his Saturday night guest appearance Julio Bocca danced the ballet with a heroic degree of conviction.
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Graham Kelly should be putting his own house in order, not making guest appearances in the witness box.
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The late mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani makes a guest appearance in these 1973 sessions.
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Vary the programme with humour, audio-visual devices, music, movement, colour, question and answer sessions, guest appearances .
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High spot of the concert was a guest appearance by top pop band Shakatak.
bedroom
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Two of the three guest bedrooms are en suite.
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He was still asleep in the guest bedroom each morning I woke up, breakfasted, and went to school.
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She and two of the Aussies then proceeded to the next floor where guest bedrooms were to be found.
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Midge and Stevie had moved into the guest bedroom .
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The principal guest bedroom features fleur de lys wallpaper specially designed to be in keeping with the period the castle was built.
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Above: View from the guest bedroom , of Ray Talbot's split-level pool.
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There are two guest bedrooms each decorated in a country house style with dark wood furniture.
dinner
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Meredith speculated whether or not her dinner guest would go to her funeral.
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They stared down at his dinner guests .
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Another thing he did was picture himself and his wife in the drawing room receiving dinner guests .
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The dinner guest arrived early and came marching into the kitchen to inspect the proceedings, under the guise of offering assistance.
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After his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1939, he was a frequent dinner guest at Dumbarton Avenue.
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Ben Elissar shared the landmark diplomatic twist with dinner guests last Friday.
hotel
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This obviously includes a good awareness of the demands and requirements of the hotel guests .
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It was still too early for the hotel guests to be up and about.
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That would have hotel guests from one tower looking into the rooms of the other, he said.
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Two people had been killed, a waitress and a hotel guest , and five injured.
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The beautiful grounds at Aldwark Manor are open to all hotel guests .
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The golf course is open to hotel guests and members of the public.
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Procedures are also available to log hotel guest room changes.
house
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After the party the house guests came downstairs to eat under the arcaded edge of a courtyard.
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One teensy hope she held on to was that a workman or a house guest had left the pot there.
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All of the wealthy families had house guests and almost every farmhouse and cottage had arranged to have lodgers.
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And tomorrow I would like you to come and be my house guest in Hampshire.
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At her first Balmoral when she stayed with her sister Jane, the Parker-Bowles were prominent among the house guests .
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Noise was already filtering through from the lounge and the veranda, where the house guests had gathered.
list
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There were endless party guest lists , with Daine's name - and certain others - circled.
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Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., also was on the guest list .
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Take time working out your guest list .
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But the plan had been changed, and the guest list had expanded.
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The numbers were limited to thirty-five, and Marie and a committee including Picasso arranged the guest list .
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The guest list was heavily Hollywood.
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When the invitations for the wedding were sent out, Walter was not on the guest list .
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Presumably the Democratic National Committee checked the guest list with due diligence as to foreign corporate connections.
room
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She now has three guest rooms and is full for much of the year.
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Alice kept a gown, robe, toothbrush and other accessories in the private guest room for such times.
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Rex rampant, I thought later in their guest room .
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In the renovation, guest rooms were enlarged, with the total count falling to 194 from its pre-closing 253.
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I fetch another from the guest room .
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We removed our gear from our bikes and were ushered into their guest room .
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The system provides instantaneous online guest room security control.
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They can move to the guest room .
speaker
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They formed the bedrock of the college's Black Student Society, which regularly invited guest speakers and performers.
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Most people tend to have a high expectation of a guest speaker of your reputation.
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The guest speaker was the Playgroup Adviser for the Borough.
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Every Tuesday a guest speaker from the community came in to talk about a particular aspect of the law.
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The monthly meetings include discussions of Club business, talks by guest speakers and vendor presentations.
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Prince Charles, in his capacity as president of the charity Business in the Community, was to be the guest speaker .
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The Committee organises an interesting programme which includes visits to science exhibitions and talks by guest speakers .
worker
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Leaders of Latino rights organizations said they would accept an amnesty plan only if it also gives broader protections to guest workers .
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Richard Pombo, R-Calif., who sponsored the guest worker amendment, said the current program involves too much red tape.
■ VERB
appear
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When Park appeared in public, guests were required to be in their places an hour before he appeared.
entertain
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They were evidently able to spend unlimited roubles on receiving and entertaining guests from the West.
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She also loved to entertain guests at the farmhouse or socialize at dinner out in the community.
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In truth no expense will be spared to royally entertain the guests on board the Champagne Orient Express.
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There is live music to entertain guests several evenings a week.
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Now what more can he do to pass the evening pleasantly, and entertain his guests ?
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Baron Ferdinand wanted to house his fine collections and have somewhere to entertain his guests .
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What are you thinking of, entertaining guests here in your revolting lair?
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He was in residence mainly only at weekends, but entertained no guests .
greet
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Constance detected a change in the atmosphere as Giancarlo excused himself and walked down the steps to greet his last guest .
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Some of us would join my parents to greet guests .
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Always greet the guest warmly by name and say something pleasant, never argue or contradict, and avoid controversial conversation.
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His hostess was beginning to wilt as she greeted the guests who, by now, were queuing half-way up the grand staircase.
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Minnie greets guests , signs autographs and poses for photos by her house.
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He didn't as a rule greet all his guests , but this was different.
invite
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They formed the bedrock of the college's Black Student Society, which regularly invited guest speakers and performers.
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When I was their invited guest , I was asked not to visit with her.
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A number of important customers were invited as guests of the company.
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If he takes her back to his place, it will mean he has invited other guests .
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These are your invited guests , Atlanta, not army troops.
provide
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The system provides instantaneous online guest room security control.
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The seamless integration of office, retail and hotel environments provides tenants and guests with maximum flexibility and enjoyment at one address.
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Twice a week, a piano bar provides entertainment for guests in the evening.
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After supper there were always some musical items provided by supposedly talented guests , and I remember once being requested to recite.
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Just 24 pictures taken inside by a prison officer on film provided by the guests , will record the nuptials.
receive
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Not for nothing had this little procession presented the air of a party setting out to receive guests .
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They were evidently able to spend unlimited roubles on receiving and entertaining guests from the West.
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Since December 1989 President Havel as head of state had visited 23 countries and had officially received 140 foreign guests .
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Sell accommodation. 2. Receive and welcome guests . 3.
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Example 3 An urgent message is received for a guest , Mrs Jones.
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Another thing he did was picture himself and his wife in the drawing room receiving dinner guests .
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However, Mr Kagan having been invited, courtesy demanded that he should be received as a guest ought to be received.
welcome
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Left to right:,, and. Welcome welcomed the guests on behalf of,, and.
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Resident proprietors welcome guests back year after year.
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All will welcome you or your guests , but startle intruders.
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It was my privilege and honour, as trustee of the fund, to welcome the guests and chair the proceedings.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
surprise guest/visitor etc
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Catherine's lively grandma Zeta, 84, right, surprised guests too.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a dinner guest
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a wedding guest
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After the wedding, the couple staged a huge reception for over 250 guests.
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All three of you are on the guest list, of course.
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Among the guests was the television presenter Jo Everton.
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Are we allowed to bring a guest ?
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I'm really busy - I'm expecting guests this weekend.
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Just put the presents in the guest room for now.
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Lily poured her guest a glass of sherry.
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Now you and Anna are our guests this evening, all right?
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Police evacuated hotel guests after staff received a bomb threat.
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She felt she had to stay in and entertain her guests.
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The hotel bar is for guests only.
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The hotel takes very good care of its guests.
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This year's guest of honour will be the novelist Margaret Attwood.
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We're having guests this weekend.
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We had guests over Christmas - three of them stayed until the New Year.
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We had a couple of guests for the weekend.
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We have guests staying with us this week.
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We want our guests from Asia to feel welcome.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A guest requests that you accept a jewel box and a bundle of notes for safe-keeping.
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But everybody was friendly, and the Rosses separated and mingled with the guests.
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Mr Salter wins one week as the personal guest of Robert Mondavi at one of California's wineries.
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Sometime before the guests were due to arrive, Mark went down to the cellar to bring up the wine.
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The party, with some 200 guests, disintegrated into a melee that ultimately involved more than 100 people.
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The same way we change the jokes and we change the guests, we need to change the look of the show.
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With his personal guests who were important to him or his state, Kim was a stickler for detail.
II. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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guest towels
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the guest room
III. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Pearl Bailey also guested on a special for Bob Hope.