Definitions for Host

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Host host

Spelling: [hohst]

IPA: /hoʊst/

Host is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in Host (host).

Definitions for Host

noun

1. a person who receives or entertains guests at home or elsewhere:
2. a master of ceremonies, moderator, or interviewer for a television or radio program.
3. a person, place, company, or the like, that provides services, resources, etc., as for a convention or sporting event:
4. the landlord of an inn.
5. a living animal or plant from which a parasite obtains nutrition.
6. Surgery. the recipient of a graft. Compare donor (def 2).
7. a multitude or great number of persons or things:
8. an army.
9. the bread or wafer consecrated in the celebration of the Eucharist.

verb (used with object)

1. to be the host at (a dinner, reception, etc.):
2. to act as host to:
3. to act as master of ceremonies, moderator, or interviewer for:

verb (used without object)

1. to perform the duties or functions of a host.

Origin of Host

1250-1300; Middle English (h)oste (noun) Middle French Latin hospit- (stem of hospes) host, guest, stranger, perhaps *hosti-pot(i)s or *hos-pot(i)s, equivalent to hos(ti)- combining form of h

Examples for Host

Earlier in the segment, host Chuck Todd had asked him if he understood and acknowledged that black people have a fear of police.

Stephen Colbert, Amy Poehler, Steve Carell, and a host of others got their start with the improv troupe.

United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures.

Doug McIntyre is host of McIntyre in the Morning on KABC radio in Los Angeles.

NBC News boss Deborah Turness abruptly ousted the ‘Meet the Press’ host four months ago.

These two have rallied their host upon his modishly trimmed side-whiskers.

Kyle Dietrich, 36, is a host of one of the DC Dinner Parties.

Then up the far slope he was lost at once in a host of trees.

The laughter at this sally was all it should have been, even the host joining in it.

But, though his host suggested this, Andrew refused to move his blankets.