host
(noun) an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association
server, host
(noun) (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network
Host
(noun) a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion
horde, host, legion
(noun) a vast multitude
host, legion
(noun) archaic terms for army
host
(noun) any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event; “Atlanta was chosen to be host for the Olympic Games”
host, innkeeper, boniface
(noun) the owner or manager of an inn
host
(noun) 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
host
(noun) (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor
host
(verb) be the host of or for; “We hosted 4 couples last night”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
host
One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.
One that provides a facility for an event.
A person or organization responsible for running an event.
A moderator or master of ceremonies for a performance.
(computing, Internet) Any computer attached to a network.
(ecology) A cell or organism which harbors another organism or biological entity, usually a parasite.
(evolution, genetics) An organism bearing certain genetic material.
A paid male companion offering conversation and in some cases sex, as in certain types of bar in Japan.
• (computing): localhost
• presenter (UK)
host (third-person singular simple present hosts, present participle hosting, simple past and past participle hosted)
To perform the role of a host.
(obsolete, intransitive) To lodge at an inn.
(computing, Internet) To run software made available to a remote user or process.
host (plural hosts)
A multitude of people arrayed as an army; used also in religious senses, as: Heavenly host (of angels)
A large number of items; a large inventory.
host (plural hosts)
(Christianity) The consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist.
• HOTs, TOSH, Thos., Tosh, hots, oths, shot, tosh
Source: Wiktionary
Host, n. Etym: [LL. hostia sacrifice, victim, from hostire to strike.] (R. C. Ch.)
Definition: 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. Etym: [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. Etym: [OE. host, ost, OF. hoste, oste, F. hĂ´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.]
Definition: One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitosly 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.
Definition: To give entertainment to. [Obs.] Spenser.
Host, v. i.
Definition: To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. [Obs.] "Where you shall host." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 January 2025
(verb) leave undone or leave out; “How could I miss that typo?”; “The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
