guesthouse

See also: guest house

English

Alternative forms

• guest house
• guest-house (rare)

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛsthaʊs/

Noun

guesthouse (plural guesthouses)

1. A small house near a main house, for lodging visitors.
2. A private house offering accommodation to paying guests; a boarding house; a bed and breakfast.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lodging place

Hypernyms

• house

Hyponyms

• (client accommodations): paying guest house, PG house

Descendants

• Japanese: ゲストハウス (​gesutohausu)
• Korean: 게스트하우스 (geseuteuhauseu)

Translations

small house for visitors

• Afrikaans: gastehuis
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: къща за гости f (kǎšta za gosti)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 賓館／宾馆 (zh) (bīnguǎn), 客棧／客栈 (zh) (kèzhàn)

• Dutch: gastenverblijf (nl) n
• Esperanto: gastejo
• Estonian: võõrastemaja (et)
• Finnish: vierasmaja, vierastalo (fi)
• French: maison d’hôte (fr) f, pension (fr) f
• German: Gästehaus (de) n, Gästeheim n
• Greek: ξενώνας (el) m (xenónas)

  Ancient: ξενίδιον n (xenídion)

• Italian: pensione (it) f
• Japanese: ゲストハウス (ja) (gesutohausu)
• Khmer: ផ្ទះសំណាក់ (pteah sɑmnak)
• Korean: 게스트하우스 (geseuteuhauseu)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Lü: ᦷᦣᧂᦶᦃᧅᧈᦶᦂᧁᧉ (hongẋaek¹k̇aew²)
• Macedonian: пансио́н m (pansión), гости́лница f (gostílnica)
• Maori: wharepuni
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: pensjonat (pl) m
• Portuguese: casa de visitas f
• Russian: пансио́н (ru) m (pansión), гости́ница (ru) f (gostínica), гостево́й дом m (gostevój dom), постоя́лый двор (ru) m (postojályj dvor) (dated)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гостионица f

  Roman: gostionica (sh) f

• Spanish: pensión (es) f
• Swedish: gästhus n
• Thai: บ้านรับรอง (bâan ráp rong)
• Vietnamese: nhà khách (vi)

boarding house — see boarding house

Anagrams

• house guest, houseguest