Word
guesthouse
Phoneticsguest·house
US/ˈɡɛstˌhaʊs/
UK/ɡˈɛsthaʊs/
Definitions
01a small hotel or B&B
n. a private house where you can pay to stay in a room and often have breakfast.
n. a commercial lodging establishment, often a converted private residence, providing rooms and meals to paying guests.
“We stayed at a lovely guesthouse near the beach instead of a big hotel.”
“The family-run guesthouse offered a more intimate experience than the local resorts, with the owners providing personalised recommendations for hiking trails.”
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02a separate building for visitors
n. a small, separate building on someone's property used for visitors to sleep in.
n. a secondary building on a residential estate designed to accommodate non-paying personal visitors.
“When my cousins visit, they usually sleep in the guesthouse in the garden.”
“The estate includes a primary residence and a detached guesthouse, which the current owners have converted into a private studio for visiting artists.”
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.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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