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

noun. A person who manages an inn or hotel.

noun. One that furnishes facilities and resources for a function or event.

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

noun. The animal or plant on which or in which another organism lives.

noun. The recipient of a transplanted tissue or organ.

noun. undefined

noun. A computer or other device providing data or services that a remote computer can access by means of a network or modem.

noun. A computer that is connected to a TCP/IP network, such as the Internet.

transitive verb. To serve as host to or at.

transitive verb. To provide software that offers data or services, hardware, or both over a computer network.

noun. An army.

noun. A great number; a multitude. synonym: multitude.

noun. The consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist.

To assemble or move as an army.

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

noun. Any great number or multitude.

To administer the sacrament to.

noun. Same as hoast.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. In mineralogy, a mineral which incloses another.

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

noun. An inn; a lodging.

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

To give entertainment to; receive as a guest.

noun. An offering; a sacrifice.

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

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

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

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

noun. Any great number or multitude; a throng.

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

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

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

transitive verb. To give entertainment to.

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

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

noun. The consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist.

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

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

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

noun. Any computer attached to a network.

noun. A computer or software component that provides services.

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

noun. An organism bearing certain genetic material.

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

verb. To perform the role of a host.

verb. To lodge at an inn.