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guesthouse

noun
/ˈɡɛsthaʊs/

Etymology

From Middle English gest hous, gistenehus, gystehuse, gesthus, partly from Old English gæsthūs, ġesthūs (“guesthouse, hostel; guest-chamber”), from Proto-West Germanic *gastihūs; and partly from Old Norse gesthús (“guesthouse; guest-chamber”); both from Proto-Germanic *gastihūsą, corresponding to guest + house.

  1. inherited from *gastihūsą✻
  2. derived from gesthús — “guesthouse; guest-chamber”
  3. inherited from *gastihūs✻
  4. inherited from gæsthūs
  5. inherited from gest hous

Definitions

  1. A small house near a main house, for lodging visitors.

    • The wine house and the guest house were hung with curtains shining bright against the wooden walls.

  2. A private house offering accommodation to paying guests

    A private house offering accommodation to paying guests; a boarding house; a bed and breakfast.

    • Low-season competition between the several backpackers and many guesthouses in town keeps prices down, but in high season expect steep price hikes (except at the backpackers) and book ahead.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at guesthouse. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01guesthouse02visitors03visitor04guest05hotel

A definitional loop anchored at guesthouse. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at guesthouse

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA