guesthouse
/ˈɡɛsthaʊs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.87 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A private house offering accommodation to paying guests; a boarding house; a bed and breakfast.
Example Sentences
- "The wine house and the guest house were hung with curtains shining bright against the wooden walls."
- "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."
- "For me, in any case, Ladakh seemed a beautifully unfallen place next to the blue-glass shopping malls of modern Lhasa, the global village of pizza joints and guesthouses that is urban Nepal, or long-isolated Bhutan with its chic new hotels."
- "And Ms. Davies’s 7,000-square-foot guesthouse, the only building from the original estate to survive, is already a favorite among card-playing foursomes and others who want to lounge on the second-story deck and watch dolphins bob in the whitecapped waves."
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.