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host

noun
/həʊst/UK/hoʊst/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis Proto-Indo-European *pótis Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis Proto-Italic *hostipotis Latin hospes Old French ostebor. Middle English hoste English host From Middle English hoste, from Old French oste (French: hôte), from Latin hospitem, accusative of hospes (“a host, also a sojourner, visitor, guest; hence, a foreigner, a stranger”), from *hostipotis, an old compound of hostis and the root of potis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis (“master of guests”), from *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, enemy”) and *pótis (“owner, master, host, husband”). Used in English since 13th century.

  1. derived from *gʰóstipotis✻
  2. derived from hospitem
  3. derived from oste
  4. inherited from hoste

Definitions

  1. One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.

    • A good host is always considerate of the guest’s needs.
    • Time is like a fashionable host, / That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.

  2. One that provides a facility for an event.

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

    • Our company is host of the annual conference this year.
  4. ›+ 12 more definitions

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

      • The host was terrible, but the acts themselves were good.

    2. The primary member of a system, typically the member who fronts most often.

    3. Any computer attached to a network.

    4. A cell or organism which harbors another organism or biological entity, usually a…

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

      • Viruses depend on the host that they infect in order to be able to reproduce.
      • A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.

    5. An organism bearing certain genetic material, with respect to its cells.

      • The so-called junk DNA is known, so far, to provide no apparent benefit to its host.

    6. A paid male companion offering conversation and in some cases sex, as in certain types of…

      A paid male companion offering conversation and in some cases sex, as in certain types of bar in Japan.

    7. To perform the role of a host.

      • Our company will host the annual conference this year.
      • I was terrible at hosting that show.
      • I’ll be hosting tonight. I hope I’m not terrible.

    8. To lodge at an inn.

      • Where you shall host.

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

      • Kremvax hosts a variety of services.
      • CMU/TEK TCP/IP software uses an excessive amount of cpu resources for terminal support both outbound, when accessing another system, and inbound, when the local system is hosting a session.

    10. A multitude of people arrayed as an army

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

      • Why, Plugson, even thy own host is all in mutiny: Cotton is conquered; but the ‘bare backs’ — are worse covered than ever!
      • All about the hosts of Mordor raged.
      • By Lady Day the Scriptorium was ready to receive the "copying and burrowing" of the host of readers who had been directed by Furnivall for the past twenty years.

    11. A large number of items

      A large number of items; a large inventory.

      • The dealer stocks a host of parts for my Model A.
      • There are a host of reasons for this decision.
      • I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; […]

    12. The consecrated bread of the Eucharist.

      • Do you pray to the Holy Ghost when you suck your host? / Do you read who's dead in the Irish Post?

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Derived

air host, bulletproof host, co-host, definitive host, dehost, DMZ host, graft-versus-host, graft-versus-host disease, host cell, host city, host country, hostel, hoster, hostess, host family, hostless, hostmask, hostmaster, hostname, host plant, host response, hostress, host rock, host selling, hostship, host species, host with the most, interhost, intrahost, jump host, mine host, multihost, mycohost, no-host, no host bar, nonhost, opinion host, play host to, reckon without one's host, webhost · +10 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at host. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at host. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at host

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA