Host
[həʊst] or [host]
Definition
(noun.) an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association.
(noun.) a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion.
(noun.) archaic terms for army.
(noun.) any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event; 'Atlanta was chosen to be host for the Olympic Games'.
(noun.) the owner or manager of an inn.
(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.
(noun.) (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor.
(verb.) be the host of or for; 'We hosted 4 couples last night'.
Typed by Bernadine--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.
(n.) An army; a number of men gathered for war.
(n.) Any great number or multitude; a throng.
(n.) One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.
(v. t.) To give entertainment to.
(v. i.) To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.
Typist: Marietta
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Entertainer.[2]. Landlord, innkeeper.[3]. Army, legion, armed force.[4]. Multitude.[5]. Consecrated wafer.
Edited by Clare
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Multitude, number, assemblage, army
ANT:Handful, sprinkling, knot, group, corps, section
Typist: Meg
Definition
n. an army a large multitude.—n. Host′ing (Milt.) an encounter of hosts a battle: (Spens.) an assemblage of hosts a muster.—A host in himself one of great strength skill or resources within himself; Heavenly host the angels and archangels; Lord of hosts a favourite Hebrew term for Jehovah considered as head of the hosts of angels the hosts of stars &c.
n. in the R.C. Church the consecrated bread of the Eucharist—a thin circular wafer of unleavened bread.
n. one who entertains a stranger or guest at his house without reward: an innkeeper: an organism on which another lives as a parasite:—fem. Host′ess.—n. Host′ess-ship (Shak.) the character or office of a hostess.—adj. Host′less (Spens.) destitute of a host inhospitable.—Reckon or Count without one's host to misjudge the original idea being that of totting up one's bill without reference to the landlord.
Typist: Maura
Examples
- Each female cod has more than 9,000,000 eggs, but the numbers are kept down by a host of enemies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Here the peerless Saladin met the Christian host some seven hundred years ago, and broke their power in Palestine for all time to come. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We should have liked so much to have seen and thanked our host. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Of all that mighty host, none but the two faithful spies ever lived to set their feet in the Promised Land. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I should think so,' replied the jolly host. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Let me,' says the large man, trying to attract the attention of his wife in the distance, 'have the pleasure of presenting Mrs Podsnap to her host. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The whole looked, as the host of the Rochester Arms had said, quite a desolate spot. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- And this was not a couple of generations after the hosts of Xerxes had crossed the Hellespont! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Miss Volumnia with a third little scream takes flight, wishing her hosts--O Lud! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- When he went to his shack he found a native cook installed there, and had to submit to the hospitality of his hosts. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He had, as I well knew, hosts of friends in Frizinghall; and he would be at no loss how to fill up his time until I returned to the hotel. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea-shore for multitude, etc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A blank, through which the warriors of poetry and history march on in stately hosts that seem to have no end--and what comes next! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Their time is the day of vengeance; their signal, the word of the Lord of hosts, thundering with the voice of His excellency. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Edited by Eileen