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Meaning of guesthouse | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈɡɛsthaʊs

Definitions

  1. A small house near a main house, for lodging visitors.
  2. A private house offering accommodation to paying guests; a boarding house; a bed and breakfast.

Equivalents

Azərbaycanca mehmanxana
Bosanski пансион
Čeština hostinec penzion
Esperanto gastejo
Español pensión
Gàidhlig taigh-aoigheachd
Hrvatski пансион
Magyar panzió
Bahasa Indonesia pesanggrahan
Íslenska gistihús
日本語 ゲストハウス
ქართული სასტუმრო
Қазақша мейманхана
Kurdî pansiyon
Кыргызча мейманкана
Latina pensio
Latviešu viesu nams
Te Reo Māori wharepuni
Македонски гостилница пансион
Nederlands gastenverblijf
Polski pensjonat
Português casa de visitas
Română pensiune
Slovenščina gostílna
Српски пансион
Тоҷикӣ меҳмонхона
ئۇيغۇرچە مېھمانخانا
Oʻzbekcha mehmonxona
Tiếng Việt nhà khách nhà nghỉ

Examples

“The wine house and the guest house were hung with curtains shining bright against the wooden walls.”
“Low-season competition between the several backpackers and many guesthouses in town keeps prices down, but in high season expect steep price hikes (except at the backpackers) and book ahead.”
“For me, in any case, Ladakh seemed a beautifully unfallen place next to the blue-glass shopping malls of modern Lhasa, the global village of pizza joints and guesthouses that is urban Nepal, or long-isolated Bhutan with its chic new hotels.”
“And Ms. Davies’s 7,000-square-foot guesthouse, the only building from the original estate to survive, is already a favorite among card-playing foursomes and others who want to lounge on the second-story deck and watch dolphins bob in the whitecapped waves.”

CEFR level

C2
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