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host

1 [hohst]

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–noun

1.	a person who receives or entertains guests at home or elsewhere: the host at a theater party.

2.	a master of ceremonies, moderator, or interviewer for a television or radio program.

3.	a person, place, company, or the like, that provides services, resources, etc., as for a convention or sporting event: Our city would like to serve as host for the next Winter Olympics.

4.	the landlord of an inn.

5.	a living animal or plant from which a parasite obtains nutrition.

6.	Surgery. the recipient of a graft. Compare donor (def. 2).

–verb (used with object)

7.	to be the host at (a dinner, reception, etc.): He hosted a reception for new members.

8.	to act as host to: The vice president hosted the foreign dignitaries during their visit.

9.	to act as master of ceremonies, moderator, or interviewer for: to host a popular talk show.

–verb (used without object)

10.	to perform the duties or functions of a host.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME (h)oste (n.) < MF < L hospit- (s. of hospes) host, guest, stranger, perh. < *hosti-pot(i)s or *hos-pot(i)s, equiv. to hos(ti)- comb. form of hostis stranger (see host ² ) + -pot(i)s, akin to potis having the power to, posse to be able (see potent ) (hence, “one granting hospitality, one in charge of guests”); cf., with different initial elements, Gk despótēs master, despot, Lith viẽšpats lord

Related forms:

hostless, adjective

hostship, noun

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host

2 [hohst]

–noun

1.	a multitude or great number of persons or things: a host of details.

an army.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME (h)oste < OF < L hostis stranger, enemy; akin to guest

Synonyms:
1. swarm, crowd, drove, throng, horde, myriad.

Host

[hohst]

–noun Ecclesiastical.

the bread or wafer consecrated in the celebration of the Eucharist.

Origin:
1275–1325; ME hoste < LL hostia Eucharistic wafer (L: victim, sacrifice); r. ME oyst < MF oiste < LL, as above

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host¹ (hōst)

One who receives or entertains guests in a social or official capacity.
A person who manages an inn or hotel.
One that furnishes facilities and resources for a function or event: the city chosen as host for the Olympic Games.
The emcee or interviewer on a radio or television program.
Biology The animal or plant on which or in which another organism lives.
Medicine The recipient of a transplanted tissue or organ.
Computer Science A computer containing data or programs that another computer can access by means of a network or modem.

tr.v. host·ed, host·ing, hosts Usage Problem
To serve as host to or at: "the garden party he had hosted last spring" (Saturday Review).

[Middle English, host, guest, from Old French, from Latin hospes, hospit-; see ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots.]
host'ly adj.

Usage Note: Host was used as a verb in Shakespeare's time, but this usage was long obsolete when the verb was reintroduced (or perhaps reinvented) in recent years to mean "perform the role of a host." The usage occurs particularly in contexts relating to institutional gatherings or television and radio shows, where the person performing the role of host has not personally invited the guests. Perhaps because the verb involves a suspect extension of the traditional conception of hospitality, it initially met with critical resistance. In a 1968 survey only 18 percent of the Usage Panel accepted the usage in the sentence The Cleveland chapter will host this year's convention. Over time, however, the usage has become increasingly well established and has the useful purpose of describing the activities of one who performs the ceremonial or practical role of a host, as in arranging a conference or welcoming guests. In our 1986 survey, 53 percent of the Panelists accepted the usage in the phrase a reception hosted by the Secretary of State. The verb is less well accepted when it is used to describe the role of a performer who acts as a master of ceremonies for a broadcast or film, where the relation of the word to the notion of "hospitality" is stretched still further.

host² (hōst)

An army.
A great number; a multitude. See Synonyms at multitude.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin hostis, from Latin, enemy; see ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots.]

host³ also Host (hōst)

n. Ecclesiastical
The consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist.

[Middle English, from Latin hostia, sacrifice.]

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Host

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

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

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

Host\, v. t. To give entertainment to. [Obs.] --Spenser.

Host

Host\, v. i. To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. [Obs.] "Where you shall host." --Shak.

Host

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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Language Translation for : host

Spanish: anfitrión; anfitriona,

German: der, *die Gastgeber(in),

Japanese: 主人役

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host (1)

"person who receives guests," c.1290, from O.Fr. hoste "guest, host" (12c.), from L. hospitem (nom. hospes) "guest, host," lit. "lord of strangers," from PIE *ghostis- "stranger" (cf. O.C.S. gospodi "lord, master," Goth. gasts, O.E. gæst "guest"). The biological sense of "animal or plant having a parasite" is from 1857. The verb is 1421, from the noun. Hostess is attested from c.1290.

host (2)

"multitude" 1265, from O.Fr. host "army" (10c.), from M.L. hostis "army, war-like expedition," from L. hostis "enemy, stranger," from the same root as host (1). Replaced O.E. here, and has in turn been largely superseded by army. The generalized meaning of "large number" is first attested 1613.

host (3)

"body of Christ, consecrated bread," c.1303, from L. hostia "sacrifice," also "the animal sacrificed," applied in Church L. to Christ; probably ult. related to host (1) in its root sense of "stranger, enemy."

Main Entry: host
Pronunciation: 'hOst
Function: noun
1 : a living animal or plant on or in which a parasite lives —see DEFINITIVE HOST, INTERMEDIATE HOST
2 : the larger, stronger, or dominant one of a commensal or symbiotic pair
3 a : an individual into which a tissue or part is transplanted from another b : an individual in whom an abnormal growth (as a cancer) is proliferating

host (hōst)
n.

The animal or plant on which or in which a parasitic organism lives.
The recipient of a transplanted tissue or organ.

host (hōst) Pronunciation Key

1. The larger of two organisms in a symbiotic relationship.
2. An organism or cell on or in which a parasite lives or feeds. ◇ A definitive host is an organism in which a parasite reaches sexual maturity. The anopheles mosquito is the definitive host for the malaria plasmodium because, while the mosquito is not adversely affected by the plasmodium's presence, it is the organism in which the plasmodium matures and reproduces. ◇ An intermediate host is an organism in which a parasite develops but does not attain sexual maturity. Humans and certain other vertebrates are the intermediate host of the malaria plasmodium. ◇ A paratenic host is an organism which may be required for the completion of a parasite's life cycle but in which no development of the parasite occurs. The unhatched eggs of nematodes are sometimes carried in a paratenic host such as a bird or rodent. When a predator eats the paratenic host, the eggs are ingested as well.
The recipient of a transplanted tissue or organ.
A computer containing data or programs that another computer can access by means of a network or modem.

host
1. A computer connected to a network.
The term node includes devices such as routers and printers which would not normally be called "hosts".
2. A computer to which one connects using a terminal emulator.
(1995-02-16)

Host

an entertainer (Rom. 16:23); a tavern-keeper, the keeper of a caravansary (Luke 10:35). In warfare, a troop or military force. This consisted at first only of infantry. Solomon afterwards added cavalry (1 Kings 4:26; 10:26). Every male Israelite from twenty to fifty years of age was bound by the law to bear arms when necessary (Num. 1:3; 26:2; 2 Chr. 25:5). Saul was the first to form a standing army (1 Sam. 13:2; 24:2). This example was followed by David (1 Chr. 27:1), and Solomon (1 Kings 4:26), and by the kings of Israel and Judah (2 Chr. 17:14; 26:11; 2 Kings 11:4, etc.).

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