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host

1   [hohst]
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.
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6.
Surgery. the recipient of a graft. Compare donor (def. 2).
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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.

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verb (used without object)
10.
to perform the duties or functions of a host.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English (h)oste (noun) < Middle French < Latin hospit- (stem of hospes) host, guest, stranger, perhaps < *hosti-pot(i)s or *hos-pot(i)s, equivalent to hos(ti)- combining form of hostis stranger (see host2) + -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”); compare, with different initial elements, Greek despótēs master, despot, Lithuanian viẽšpats lord

Related forms
host·less, adjective
host·ship, noun
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host

2   [hohst]
noun
1.
a multitude or great number of persons or things: a host of details.
2.
an army.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English (h)oste < Old French < Latin 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; Middle English hoste < Late Latin hostia Eucharistic wafer (Latin: victim, sacrifice); replacing Middle English oyst < Middle French oiste < Late Latin, as above
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host
"body of Christ, consecrated bread," c.1300, 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."
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Medical Dictionary

host (hōst)
n.

  1. The animal or plant on which or in which a parasitic organism lives.

  2. The recipient of a transplanted tissue or organ.

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Science Dictionary
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.

  2. The recipient of a transplanted tissue or organ.

  3. A computer containing data or programs that another computer can access by means of a network or modem.


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