diner vs guest

diner

noun
  • One who dines. 

  • A typically small restaurant, usually modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other, and often decorated in 50s and 60s pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades. 

  • A dining car in a railroad train. 

guest

noun
  • A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another. 

  • An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast. 

  • A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own. 

  • Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite. 

  • An inquiline. 

  • A patron or customer in a hotel etc. 

verb
  • to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast 

  • as a musician, to play as a guest, providing an instrument that a band/orchestra does not normally have in its line up (for instance, percussion in a string band) 

How often have the words diner and guest occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )