Whoever stays in a hotel room is a guest.
Originating from the Latin hospes , the word guest describes the individual who is housed or lodged in another's home or in a hotel room . For example: "Don't make noise, we have a guest at home tonight" , "The hotel announced that next week it will inaugurate a swimming pool that will be available to all guests" , "Lucky we had made the reservation in advance: in There is no room in the rooms for a single more guest .
In this sense, a guest can be someone who has been invited to spend the night in a private home. If a family welcomes a friend from abroad into their home, the guest will become a guest of the clan in question.
Guest is also the client who pays to use the facilities of a hotel , a hostel, an inn, a tourist lodge , etc. The subject pays a certain rate to stay in the place and use various services (bathroom, restaurant or others).
Guesthouse
In this sense, it must be emphasized that in the 19th century the term guest house was used very frequently. This was defined as an establishment where a person in question rented a room and also paid a specific amount to be able to enjoy the food.
These houses were similar to the inns, although the prices of the latter were much cheaper than those of the former. Hence, for example, in Madrid at the aforementioned time there were almost 500 homes of this type that had a very unique way of indicating that they had a free room.
Specifically, and given that they had a certain secret nature, the usual thing was that so that anyone interested in renting one of these rooms could know that they had space in a house there, a blank piece of paper was placed on one of their balconies.
In addition to the above, it must be emphasized that on many occasions the expression guest house was used to also refer to those known as brothels . The latter were defined as being homes in which, paying a certain amount set by the owner, rooms could be rented in order to carry out sexual encounters.
A colloquial expression
Likewise, we cannot ignore that there is a colloquial adverbial phrase that uses the term guest that we are analyzing.
Specifically, we are referring to "being a guest in your home", which is used to explain that a person is in your home for a short time.
In biology, the organism that has parasites is called a host.
Host in biology
For biology , a host is an organism (animal or plant) that has parasites inside. The correct term, in any case, would be host , host or host , since the parasite is, in reality, the host (because it lodges in a foreign organism). This can be explained by the etymology of the term ( hospes ), which included both meanings (the one that houses and the one that is housed).
The interactions between the biological system and its host can develop in different ways and can be framed within parasitism (the parasite resides permanently in the host), pathogenesis (a specific relationship depending on the type of disease), mutualism (fungi that depend on of its host) and commensalism .