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Host   /hoʊst/   Listen
Host

noun
1.
A person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there.
2.
A vast multitude.  Synonyms: horde, legion.
3.
An animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association.
4.
A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers).  Synonyms: emcee, master of ceremonies.
5.
Archaic terms for army.  Synonym: legion.
6.
Any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event.
7.
(medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor.
8.
The owner or manager of an inn.  Synonyms: boniface, innkeeper.
9.
A technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion.
10.
(computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network.  Synonym: server.
verb
1.
Be the host of or for.



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"Host" Quotes from Famous Books



... young mistress whom they seemed to regard as akin to the angels: probably in a great measure because of her extraordinary likeness to her mother, of whom, for so many years they had been accustomed to think and speak as one of the heavenly host. ...
— Elsie's Womanhood • Martha Finley

... sermon, expecting to see in the preacher of it the outward and visible signs of a leadership which, as he already knew, was a great force in Oxford life. His mood was that of the disciple only eager to be enrolled. And what he found was a quiet, friendly, host, surrounded by a group of men talking the ordinary pleasant Oxford chit-chat—the river, the schools, the Union, the football matches, and so on. Every now and then, as Elsmere stood at the edge of the circle listening, the rugged face in the centre of it would break ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... girl friends, a leaven of the older world in Nigel's few intimates,—and Naida, very pale but more beautiful than ever in a white velvet gown, her hair brushed straight back, and with no jewellery save one long rope of pearls. Nigel who in his capacity as host had found little time for personal conversation during the service of dinner, deliberately led her a little apart when they passed out into the lounge for coffee and ...
— The Great Prince Shan • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... glad you did not go to a hotel," said their host, when he had given them a cordial welcome. "I heard last night that your entire company was going up the river, and that the authorities were thinking strongly of putting the last one of you ...
— Rodney The Partisan • Harry Castlemon

... retreats he has, as good as desperate of Silesia, and will probably be first heard of in Breslau, when they get thither with their sieging guns. No cautious sagacious old Feldmarschall Traun is in that Host at present; nothing but a Prince Karl, and a poor Duke of Weissenfels; who are too certain of several things;—very capable of certainty, and also of doubt, the wrong way of the facts. Their force is, by strict count, 75,000; and ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XV. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle


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