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What's The Definition Of Host?
[n] an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; the host does not benefit and is often harmed by the association
[n] (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network [n] a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion [n] a vast multitude [n] archaic terms for army [n] any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event; "Atlanta was chosen to be host for the Olympic Games" [n] the owner or manager of an inn [n] 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 [n] (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor [n] a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers) [v] be the host of or for; "We hosted 4 couples last night" Synonyms | Synonyms for Host: emcee | horde | innkeeper | legion | master of ceremonies | server Related Terms | Find terms related to Host: a mass of | a world of | Agnus Dei | altar bread | announcer | ark | armed force | armed service | army | array | asperger | asperges | aspergillum | assemblage | assembly | bambino | beadroll | beads | bevy | body | bread | bread and wine | bunch | candle | career soldiers | censer | chaplet | ciborium | cloud | cluster | clutter | cohue | colony | Communion | consecrated bread | consecrated elements | consubstantiation | covey | cross | crowd | crucifix | cruet | crush | deluge | do the honors | drift | drive | drove | elements | emcee | entertain | entertain guests | entertainer | Eucharist | eucharistial | fighting machine | flight | flock | flocks | flood | forces | galaxy | gam | gang | give a party | ground forces | ground troops | guest | hail | have | heap | herd | hive | Holy Communion | holy cross | Holy Grail | holy water | holy-water sprinkler | horde | hostess | icon | impanation | incensory | innkeeper | intinction | jam | kennel | landlady | landlord | large amount | Last Supper | legion | legions | litter | loaf | lots | manager | many | mass | masses of | master of ceremonies | matzo | MC | menorah | mezuzah | mikvah | military establishment | mine host | mob | monstrance | muchness | multitude | nest | numbers | occupation force | osculatory | ostensorium | pack | panoply | paratroops | paschal candle | pax | phylacteries | Pieta | plurality | pod | prayer shawl | prayer wheel | presenter | preside | press | pride | proprietor | proprietress | publican | pyx | quantities | quite a few | rabble | rank and file | ranks | real presence | receptionist | regular army | regulars | relics | rood | rosary | rout | ruck | Sacrament Sunday | sacramental | sacred relics | sacring bell | Sanctus bell | Sangraal | school | scores | shoal | shofar | ski troops | skulk | sloth | soldiery | spate | standing army | storm troops | subpanation | sukkah | swarm | tabernacle | tallith | the Holy Sacrament | the line | the military | the Sacrament | throng | throw a party | thurible | tidy sum | transubstantiation | trip | troop | troops | urceole | veronica | vigil light | votive candle | wafer | worlds of See Also | adult | army | banquet | being | bread | breadstuff | compere | compere | computer | computer network | computing device | computing machine | concourse | data processor | definitive host | Ed Sullivan | Edward Vincent Sullivan | electronic computer | emcee | entertain | entertainer | feast | grownup | hostess | information processing system | intermediate host | junket | Lord of Misrule | multitude | organisation | organism | organization | padrone | patron | question master | quizmaster | receiver | recipient | regular army | ringmaster | Sabaoth | staff of life | Sullivan | throng | toastmaster | victualer | victualler | wine and dine Host In Webster's Dictionary \Host\ (h[=o]st), n. [LL. hostia sacrifice, victim, from
hostire to strike.] (R. C. Ch.)
The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ,
which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread
before consecration.
Note: In the Latin Vulgate the word was applied to the Savior
as being an offering for the sins of men.
\Host\, n. [OE. host, ost, OF. host, ost, fr. L. hostis enemy, LL., army. See {Guest}, and cf. {Host} a landlord.] 1. An army; a number of men gathered for war. A host so great as covered all the field. --Dryden. 2. Any great number or multitude; a throng. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God. --Luke ii. 13. All at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils. --Wordsworth. \Host\, n. [OE. host, ost, OF. hoste, oste, F. h[^o]te, from L. hospes a stranger who is treated as a guest, he who treats another as his guest, a hostl prob. fr. hostis stranger, enemy (akin to E. guest a visitor) + potis able; akin to Skr. pati master, lord. See {Host} an army, {Possible}, and cf. {Hospitable}, {Hotel}.] One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord. --Chaucer. ``Fair host and Earl.'' --Tennyson. Time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. --Shak. \Host\, v. t. To give entertainment to. [Obs.] --Spenser. \Host\, v. i. To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. [Obs.] ``Where you shall host.'' --Shak. \Host\, n. (Biol.) Any animal or plant affording lodgment or subsistence to a parasitic or commensal organism. Thus a tree is a host of an air plant growing upon it. |
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