guesthouse
noun
guest·house
ˈgest-ˌhau̇s 
: a building used for guests (as on an estate)
especially
: a house run as a boardinghouse or bed-and-breakfast
Examples of guesthouse in a Sentence
The estate includes a small guesthouse.
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Best Hotels and Resorts The Old Gin House This spot was a public guesthouse in 1760, later a factory (the gin refers to cotton, not booze).
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Jeannette Cooperman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2025
This style is smaller and more compact than a full guesthouse, and few furnishings are needed to create the comfy haven.
—Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2025
The four-acre property dates to 1890 but wasn’t converted into a guesthouse until 1978.
—Ashlea Halpern, AFAR Media, 1 Aug. 2025
Agatha Christie's most famous play finds a group of seven strangers snowed in at a remote countryside guesthouse, and one of them is a killer.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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Jeannette Cooperman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2025
This style is smaller and more compact than a full guesthouse, and few furnishings are needed to create the comfy haven.
—Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2025
The four-acre property dates to 1890 but wasn’t converted into a guesthouse until 1978.
—Ashlea Halpern, AFAR Media, 1 Aug. 2025
Agatha Christie's most famous play finds a group of seven strangers snowed in at a remote countryside guesthouse, and one of them is a killer.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for guesthouse
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“Guesthouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guesthouse. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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