house guest
Overnight staying visitor
A house guest is someone staying temporarily in another person's home, typically for a few days to a few weeks.
The term implies social visiting rather than paying for accommodation: We're having house guests this weekend.
House guests occupy a middle ground between brief visitors and long-term residents, with unwritten rules about duration and behavior: Fish and house guests smell after three days.
- accommodateProvide for or adjust
- visitorShort-term guest
- inviteeOne asked to attend
- overnightSpanning evening to morning
- courtesyRespectful, considerate behavior
temporary · freeloader · welcome · sojourner · manners · impose · overstaying · etiquette · good manners · bedding · privacy · arrival · weekend · friend · entertaining · sofa bed · breakfast · towels
- social visitsdinner party, drop-in, pop-in, playdate, coffee date
- occupantsoccupant, resident, tenant, dweller, inhabitant
- Visitorsvisitor, invitee, company, caller, drop-in
- staying oversleepover, overnight, spare room, sofa bed, homestay
- callerstelemarketer, robocall, cold caller, solicitor, debt collector
- spectatorsviewer, watcher, onlooker, observer, audience
house guesthost
One receiving guests
hostess · homeowner · landlord · lady of the house · man of the house
house guestpermanent resident
One who stays indefinitely
homeowner · tenant · householder · resident · occupant
house guestintruder
Unauthorized person present
trespasser · uninvited guest · home invader · squatter · burglar