Host (masculine) and hostess (feminine) most often refer to a person responsible for guests at an event or providing hospitality during it, or to anevent's presenter or master or mistress of ceremonies
Host (masculine) and hostess (feminine) most often refer to a person responsible for guests at an event or providing hospitality during it, or to anevent's presenter or master or mistress of ceremonies. Host or hosts may also refer to:
• Host (biology), an organism harboring another organism or organisms on or in itself
• Sacramental bread, called the host or hostia, used in Christian liturgy
• Host (psychology), personality as emphasized in treating dissociative identity disorder
• Host (radio), the presenter or announcer on a radio show
• Talk show host, a presenter of a TV or radio talk show
• the Maître d'hôtel (Maître d') or head waiter of a restaurant or hotel
Computing
Host (network), a computer connected to the Internet or another IP-based network
• Hosts file, a computer file to be used to store information on where to find an internet host on a computer network
• host (Unix), a command-line Unix command
• Internet hosting service, a service that runs Internet servers allowing organizations and individuals to serve content to the Internet
• Virtual host, allowing several DNS names to share the same IP address
Groups or formations
• Cossack hosts comprised organic and administrative subdivision of Cossacks in Imperial Russia. Host names reflected location or origin.
• Furious Host or the Wild Hunt, a European folk myth
• Heavenly host, an "army" of good angels in Heaven
• Lord of hosts, a common epithet of the God of the Old Testament
• a great number; multitude
• (Military) an archaic word for army
• Host (biology), an organism harboring another organism or organisms on or in itself
• Sacramental bread, called the host or hostia, used in Christian liturgy
• Host (psychology), personality as emphasized in treating dissociative identity disorder
• Host (radio), the presenter or announcer on a radio show
• Talk show host, a presenter of a TV or radio talk show
• the Maître d'hôtel (Maître d') or head waiter of a restaurant or hotel
Computing
Host (network), a computer connected to the Internet or another IP-based network
• Hosts file, a computer file to be used to store information on where to find an internet host on a computer network
• host (Unix), a command-line Unix command
• Internet hosting service, a service that runs Internet servers allowing organizations and individuals to serve content to the Internet
• Virtual host, allowing several DNS names to share the same IP address
Groups or formations
• Cossack hosts comprised organic and administrative subdivision of Cossacks in Imperial Russia. Host names reflected location or origin.
• Furious Host or the Wild Hunt, a European folk myth
• Heavenly host, an "army" of good angels in Heaven
• Lord of hosts, a common epithet of the God of the Old Testament
• a great number; multitude
• (Military) an archaic word for army
