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单词 guestless
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guestlessadj.

/ˈɡɛstlɪs/
Etymology: < guest n. + -less suffix.
Having no guests. Sometimes as a translation of Greek ἄξενος, inhospitable.
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society > leisure > social event > hospitality > guest > [adjective] > having no guests
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1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 38 More deafe..then are the wrack-rich Libique rocks, or the guestlesse ship-swalowing Sirtes, to the cries of dying marriners.
1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 266 The Black Sea has deservedly been named ‘the guestless’, the inhospitable.
1883 J. Payn Thicker than Water II. xix. 20 The long table stretched before the guestless chairman like a coffin.
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