Definition of guess

• v. t. - To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.
• v. t. - To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons that seem preponderating, but are not decisive.
• v. t. - To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs.
• v. t. - To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
• v. t. - To think; to suppose; to believe; to imagine; -- followed by an objective clause.
• v. i. - To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; -- with at, about, etc.
• n. - An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise.