host
1- a person who receives or entertains guests at home or elsewhere: the host at a theater party.
- a master of ceremonies, moderator, or interviewer for a television or radio program.
- a person, place, company, or the like, that provides services, resources, etc., as for a convention or sporting event: Our city would like to serve as host for the next Winter Olympics.
- the landlord of an inn.
- a living animal or plant from which a parasite obtains nutrition.
- Surgery. the recipient of a graft.Compare donor(def 2).
- to be the host at (a dinner, reception, etc.): He hosted a reception for new members.
- to act as host to: The vice president hosted the foreign dignitaries during their visit.
- to act as master of ceremonies, moderator, or interviewer for: to host a popular talk show.
- to perform the duties or functions of a host.
Origin of host
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Contemporary Examples of hosted
The bar also claims that it hosted the first-ever poetry slam 28 years ago.
The group, which includes members of the Rockefeller, Pritzker, and Marriott families, was hosted at the White House this spring.
Most recently, Karl Lagerfeld hosted a grand fête celebrating the premier of his film Reincarnation.
The Vatican then hosted a final, secret discussion between the two delegations this fall in Rome.
She hosted the international jet-set in Spain and even opened her home to Yves Saint-Laurent for a Dior fashion show in 1959.
Historical Examples of hosted
This was at the house of a minister then lodging in the island, and it was he who hosted the old harper.
The Divine Adventure etc. (Works vol. 4)Fiona Macleod
host
1- a person who receives or entertains guests, esp in his own home
- a country or organization which provides facilities for and receives visitors to an event
- (as modifier)the host nation
- the compere of a show or television programme
- biology
- an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite
- an animal, esp an embryo, into which tissue is experimentally grafted
- computing a computer connected to a network and providing facilities to other computers and their users
- the owner or manager of an inn
- to be the host of (a party, programme, etc)to host one's own show
- (tr) US informal to leave (a restaurant) without paying the bill
Word Origin for host
host
2- a great number; multitude
- an archaic word for army
Word Origin for host
Host
- the bread consecrated in the Eucharist
Word Origin for Host
Word Origin and History for hosted
host
"person who receives guests," late 13c., from Old French hoste "guest, host, hostess, landlord" (12c., Modern French hôte), from Latin hospitem (nominative hospes) "guest, host," literally "lord of strangers," from PIE *ghostis- "stranger" (cf. Old Church Slavonic gosti "guest, friend," gospodi "lord, master;" see guest). The biological sense of "animal or plant having a parasite" is from 1857.
host
"multitude" mid-13c., from Old French host "army" (10c.), from Medieval Latin hostis "army, war-like expedition," from Latin hostis "enemy, foreigner, stranger," from the same root as host (n.1). Replaced Old English here, and in turn has been largely superseded by army. The generalized meaning of "large number" is first attested 1610s.
host
"body of Christ, consecrated bread," c.1300, from Latin hostia "sacrifice," also "the animal sacrificed," applied in Church Latin to Christ; probably ultimately related to host (n.1) in its root sense of "stranger, enemy."
host
"to serve as a host," early 15c., from host (n.1). Related: Hosted; hosting.
host
(hōst)- The animal or plant on which or in which a parasitic organism lives.
- The recipient of a transplanted tissue or organ.
host
- The larger of two organisms in a symbiotic relationship.
- An organism or cell on or in which a parasite lives or feeds.♦ A definitive host is an organism in which a parasite reaches sexual maturity. The anopheles mosquito is the definitive host for the malaria plasmodium because, while the mosquito is not adversely affected by the plasmodium's presence, it is the organism in which the plasmodium matures and reproduces.♦ An intermediate host is an organism in which a parasite develops but does not attain sexual maturity. Humans and certain other vertebrates are the intermediate host of the malaria plasmodium.♦ A paratenic host is an organism which may be required for the completion of a parasite's life cycle but in which no development of the parasite occurs. The unhatched eggs of nematodes are sometimes carried in a paratenic host such as a bird or rodent. When a predator eats the paratenic host, the eggs are ingested as well.
- The recipient of a transplanted tissue or organ.
- A computer containing data or programs that another computer can access by means of a network or modem.