Definitions for hosts

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hosts host

Spelling: [hohst]

IPA: /hoʊst/

Hosts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in hosts (hosst).

Definitions for hosts

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 hosts

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 hosts

I was touched by the gracefulness and tact of my hosts in not asking me to recite any poetry.

The army, or the hosts, were called the army of God, or the hosts of God.

By day, she cares for her children in a bombed-out milk factory that hosts her orphanage, Okutiuka.

This was the chief of all the hosts, Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and Argos.

Yet it was not easy for him to assume, at such short notice, those of his hosts.

Oftener than not his hosts caught no glimpse of his lordship throughout the day.

Blacklace also hosts nights for Killing Kittens, a sex club of sorts with cabaret acts held at venues around the U.K.

hosts are vetted carefully, both for their cooking and entertaining skills.

The Family Research Council, a major social conservative group, hosts the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. each year.

Truth be told, Patrick and Diplo [who hosts SoundClash] were neck and neck in my dream wish list for this show.