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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



... and would have persisted in talking at once if his host had permitted. The latter refused to listen, and so the young man sat silent in the rocking chair, his soaked trouser legs and boots steaming in the heat from the open door of the oven, while the ...
— Fair Harbor • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... murder. In a planned street-scuffle, Mosby pretends to take Arden's part, and thus throws him off his guard. Arden thinks he has wronged him, and invites him to his house, but Mosby conspires with two hired ruffians to fall on his host during a game of draughts, the right moment being signified by Mosby's saying, "Now I take you." Arden is murdered; but the whole gang is apprehended and brought ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
... entered, Mr. Dale bending his tall white head a little; and while the lawyer unwound a long blue muffler from about his throat, the host lighted a lamp, and, getting down on his knees, blew the dim embers in the rusty grate into a flickering blaze. Then he pulled a blackened crane from the jamb, and hung on it a dinted brass kettle, so that he might add some hot water to Mr. Denner's gin and sugar, and also make himself a cup ...
— John Ward, Preacher • Margaret Deland
... his host that he had read with delight his two lectures on Carlyle, and that "the goodness of that memorable week" was never ...
— The Brownings - Their Life and Art • Lilian Whiting
... Perfectionists in Newark, N.J. Some of them were with Noyse, others were against his supporting the Free Love doctrine. I addressed the audience. Then I was invited to dinner by a Perfectionist who did not belong to Noyse's Party. I was asked by my host, whether I did read or not, what appeared shortly before that in Noyse's "Perfectionist" against me. After my negative answer he gave me the number containing Noyse's article against me. I took it to the meeting ...
— Secret Enemies of True Republicanism • Andrew B. Smolnikar


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