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n. One who receives or entertains guests in a social or official capacity.

n. A person who manages an inn or hotel.

n. One that furnishes facilities and resources for a function or event: the city chosen as host for the Olympic Games.

n. The emcee or interviewer on a radio or television program.

n. Biology The animal or plant on which or in which another organism lives.

n. Medicine The recipient of a transplanted tissue or organ.

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

v. Usage Problem To serve as host to or at: "the garden party he had hosted last spring” ( Saturday Review).

n. An army.

n. A great number; a multitude. See Synonyms at multitude.

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

n. A multitude of people arrayed as an army; used also in religious senses, as: Heavenly host (of angels)

n. A large number of items; a large inventory.

n. A person who allows a guest, particularly into the host’s home.

n. A person or organization responsible for running an event.

n. A moderator or master of ceremonies for a performance.

n. Any computer attached to a network.

n. A computer or software component that provides services.

n. A cell or organism which harbors another organism or biological entity, usually a parasite.

n. An organism bearing certain genetic material.

n. Consecrated bread such as that used in the Christian ceremony of the Eucharist.

v. To perform the role of a host.

v. To lodge at an inn.

v. To run software made available to a remote user or process.

n. The consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist.

n. The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.

n. An army; a number of men gathered for war.

n. Any great number or multitude; a throng.

n. One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.

n. Any animal or plant affording lodgment or subsistence to a parasitic or commensal organism. .

v. To give entertainment to.

verb-intransitive. To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.

n. An army; a multitude of men organized for war.

n. Any great number or multitude.

To assemble or move as an army.

n. One who receives and entertains another in his own house, whether gratuitously or for pay; an entertainer; specifically, the landlord of a public house or inn: the correlative of guest.

n. An animal or a plant in relation to a parasite habitually dwelling in or upon it. The correlative term, in either case, is guest. See commensal, guest, inquiline, parasite, hyperparasite.

n. In zoölogy the term is a very general and comprehensive one, since almost all animals are infested, or liable to infestation, by parasites of some kind; and some parasites are themselves hosts of others.

n. In mineralogy, a mineral which incloses another.

n. One who is entertained by another as his guest; a guest.

n. An inn; a lodging.

To lodge, as at an inn; receive entertainment; be a guest.

To give entertainment to; receive as a guest.

n. An offering; a sacrifice.

n. In the Western Ch.: The sacramental victim in the eucharist; Christ offered under the species of bread and wine, or under either species separately.

n. One of the pieces of bread used for consecration in the mass or eucharist; au altar-bread, oblate, or wafer.

To administer the sacrament to.

n. Same as hoast.

n. a vast multitude

v. be the host of or for

n. an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association

n. the owner or manager of an inn

n. (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network

n. (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor

n. any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event

n. a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)

n. archaic terms for army

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. a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion

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hosted    hosting    hosts   

throng    multitude    concourse    computer    computing machine    information processing system    data processor    electronic computer    computing device    receiver   

adoration of the host    before) one's host    definitive host    blood of the host    elevation of the host    lord of hosts    host of heaven    event    master of ceremonies    guest   

hostess    hostel    hospitality    hostname    hotel    hospitable    hospital   

army    throng    landlord    multitude    sacrifice    element    entertainer   

Post    boast    coast    diagnosed    engrossed    ghost    grossed    most    ost    post   

group    army    list    band    crowd    master    leader    multitude    company    race