Host Definition

hōst
hosted, hosting, hosts
noun
hosts
One who entertains guests either at home or elsewhere.
Webster's New World
A person who keeps an inn or hotel; innkeeper.
Webster's New World
One that furnishes facilities and resources for a function or event.
The city chosen as host for the Olympic Games.
American Heritage
An organization, municipality, etc. providing the site and services for a competition or event.
Berlin was host to the 1936 summer Olympics.
Webster's New World
The emcee or interviewer on a radio or television program.
American Heritage
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verb
hosted, hosting, hosts
To serve as host to or at.
American Heritage
To act as host or hostess (for)
Webster's New World
To provide software that offers data or services, hardware, or both over a computer network.
American Heritage

(computing, Internet) To run software made available to a remote user or process.

Kremvax hosts a variety of services.
Wiktionary
Antonyms:
  • be a guest at

Other Word Forms of Host

Noun

Singular:
host
Plural:
hosts

Origin of Host

  • From Old French oste (French: hôte), from Middle Latin hospitem, accusative of hospes (“a host, also a sourjourner, visitor, guest; hence, a foreigner, a stranger”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóspot- (“master of guests”), from *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”) and *pótis (“owner, master, host, husband”). Used in English since 13th century.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Old French hoste, from Middle Latin hostis (“foreign enemy”) (as opposed to inimicus (“personal enemy”)), cognate with etymology 1.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French from Late Latin hostis from Latin enemy ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English host, guest from Old French from Latin hospes hospit- ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English also oist, ost, from Old French hoiste, from Latin hostia (“sacrificial victim”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Latin hostia sacrifice

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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