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guest | hospiticide |

As a proper noun guest

is .

As a noun hospiticide is

(rare) one who kills his guest or host.

guest

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=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.}}
  • A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
  • An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast
  • 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)
  • (obsolete) To receive or entertain hospitably.
    • (Sylvester)

    Derived terms

    * guest of honour * guest book * guestfriendly * guestfriendship * guesthouse, guest house

    Anagrams

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    hospiticide

    English

    Noun

  • (rare) One who kills his guest or host.
  • * 1837 , Edward Smallwood, Manuella, the Executioner’s Daughter?;?A Story of Madrid , volume II, pages 275–276:
    • Armed with the weapon which was destined to destroy himself, Imnaz sprang down the ladder,?—?found the door, and, emerging from the abode of crime, sought a more secure resting place, leaving his hostess to discover, with return of day, in whose blood were imbrued the hands of an hospiticide .
  • (rare) The act of a guest killing his host or vice versa, or an instance thereof.
  • * 1837 , Edward Smallwood, Manuella, the Executioner’s Daughter?;?A Story of Madrid , volume II, page 261:
    • Anniversary of the Massacre of the Prado?—?the Defeat of Quesada?—?Murderous Reprisals?—?Hospiticides .

    References

    * (one who kills a guest or host) Glossographia; or, a dictionary interpreting the hard words of whatsoever language, now used in our refined English tongue by (1656) * (act of a guest killing a host or vice versa) A Dictionary of Words and Phrases Used in Ancient and Modern Law by Arthur English (1987; Wm. S. Hein Publishing]; ISBN 0837721040), [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TmcIvUAIlHsC&pg=PA423&dq=%22hospiticide%22&ei=r3mmSpbmI5TkMN-UvfcH
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