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Guess (verb)
To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
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Guess (verb)
To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
“He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.”
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Guess (verb)
to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
“That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.”
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Guess (verb)
To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: “I guess”.
“”I guess you were right.” “What did he say?” “He guesses you were right.””
“”I guess I’ll go to bed.””
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Guess (verb)
To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
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Guess (noun)
A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.
“If you don’t know the answer, take a guess.”
“estimate|hypothesis|prediction”
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Guest (noun)
A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
“The guests were let in by the butler.”
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Guest (noun)
A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
“Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o’clock on their day of departure.”
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Guest (noun)
An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
“The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.”
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Guest (noun)
A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
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Guest (noun)
Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
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Guest (noun)
An inquiline.
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Guest (verb)
to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast
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Guest (verb)
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)
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Guest (verb)
To receive or entertain hospitably.