🇬🇧🇨🇳 guesthouse - 招待所 : English Lesson

Meaning of "guesthouse" ("招待所"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A guesthouse is a small, simple place where people can pay to stay and sleep when they are away from home. It’s like a tiny hotel with bedrooms, maybe breakfast, and sometimes a friendly owner who lives there too. Guesthouses are usually cheaper than big hotels and feel more like staying in someone’s home than in a giant building.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

The guesthouse room was so small my socks had to take turns being on the floor.

At the guesthouse breakfast, the toast popped up so high it almost checked out by itself.

At the guesthouse, the breakfast cereal looked suspiciously like it had been on many adventures already.

Our guesthouse was cheap, but it came with free spiderweb decorations in every corner.

We knew the guesthouse was friendly when the sign said, ‘Welcome Humans and Other Polite Creatures.’

Late and wet, she found a warm guesthouse with a lit door. The guesthouse owner led her up wooden stairs; the guesthouse kitchen smelled of soup. In a small room, the guesthouse window showed quiet street lights. She slept on a soft bed, paid a small bill, and woke smiling at the safe guesthouse morning.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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