A guest or visitor, in contradistinction to the members of the household. Now chiefly with mixture of sense 4.

One who pays a visit to another person or to a household; one who is staying for a time with friends.

= visitor, n. 3.

a guest in a house (in various senses); (now spec.) a guest staying for some days in a private house; also figurative.

A guest or lodger; a visitor.

One who makes a short stay at a friend's house.

The set of guests staying in a house, esp. as distinguished from those invited for the day or less. Now rare.

Applied to a person; esp. in reference to the bird's monotonous call, or its habit of laying its eggs in the nests of other birds; also = fool…