Definition of host

"host" in the noun sense

1. host

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

2. horde, host, legion

a vast multitude

3. host

an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association

4. master of ceremonies, emcee, host

a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)

5. host, legion

archaic terms for army

6. host

any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event

"Atlanta was chosen to be host for the Olympic Games"

7. host

medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor

8. host, innkeeper, boniface

the owner or manager of an inn

9. Host

a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion

10. server, host

computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network

"host" in the verb sense

1. host

be the host of or for

"We hosted 4 couples last night"

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Quotations for host

I GREET you as host!
Unfold the pages of my heart
And read therein your welcome. [ Ben Jonson ]

I feel a host in this single arm. [ Schiller ]

An host's invitation is expensive. [ Proverb ]

Hearts only thrive on varied good;
And he who gathers from a host
Of friendly hearts his daily food,
Is the best friend that we can boast. [ Holland ]

Though it be honest, it is never good
To bring bad news; give to a gracious message
An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell
Themselves when they be felt. [ William Shakespeare ]

Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. [ Proverb ]

He that reckons before his host must reckon again. [ Proverb ]

He who reckons without his host must reckon again. [ Italian Proverb ]

An infant when it gazes on the light,
A child the moment when it drains the breast,
A devotee when soars the Host in sight,
An Arab with a stranger for a guest,
A sailor when the prize has struck in fight,
A miser filling his most hoarded chest,
Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping
As they who watch over what they love while sleeping. [ Byron ]

There are likely to be short graces where the devil plays host. [ Lamb ]

Talking with a host is next best to talking with one's self.... He is wiser than to contradict his guest in any case; he lets him go on, he lets him travel. [ Thoreau ]

A literary career is a more thorny path than that which leads to fortune. If you have the misfortune not to rise above mediocrity, you feel mortified for life; and if you are successful, a host of enemies spring up against you. Thus you find yourself on the brink of an abyss between contempt and hatred. [ Voltaire ]

Wherein is it possible for us, wicked and impious creatures, to be justified, except in the only Son of God? O sweet reconciliation! O untraceable ministry! O unlooked-for blessing! that the wickedness of many should be hidden in one godly and righteous man, and the righteousness of one justify a host of sinners! [ Justin Martyr ]

His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]

host in Scrabble®

The word host is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters host:

HOTS
(33)
HOST
(33)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word host

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The 147 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In host

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host in Words With Friends™

The word host is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters host:

HOST
(36)
HOTS
(36)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word host

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The 159 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In host

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Word Growth involving host

Shorter words in host

os

Longer words containing host

acanthostyle acanthostyles

choledochostomies

choledochostomy

dolichostylous

ghost ghostberries

ghost ghostberry

ghost ghostbuster ghostbusters

ghost ghosted

ghost ghostfish ghostfishes

ghost ghosthunter ghosthunters

ghost ghosthunting

ghost ghosting

ghost ghostlier

ghost ghostliest

ghost ghostlight ghostlights

ghost ghostlike

ghost ghostliness

ghost ghostly nonghostly

ghost ghosts

ghost ghostwrite ghostwriter ghostwriters

ghost ghostwrite ghostwrites

ghost ghostwriting

ghost ghostwritten

ghost ghostwrote

gnathostomatous

gnathostome gnathostomes

hosta hostages

hosta hostas lymphostases

hosta hostas lymphostasis

hosta lithostatic

hosta orthostannic

hosta orthostatic

hosted ghosted

hostel hosteler hostelers

hostel hosteling

hostel hosteller hostellers

hostel hostelling

hostel hostelries

hostel hostelry

hostel hostels

hostess hostessed

hostess hostesses

hostess hostessing

hostile hostilely nonhostilely

hostile hostilely overhostilely

hostile hostiler

hostile hostiles

hostile nonhostile nonhostilely

hostile overhostile overhostilely

hostilities

hostility nonhostility

hostility overhostility

hosting ghosting

hostler hostlers

hostless

hosts ghosts

hosts hostship

lithostratigrapher lithostratigraphers

lithostratigraphic lithostratigraphically

lithostratigraphic lithostratigraphics

lithostratigraphist lithostratigraphists

lithostratigraphy

lophostea

lophosteon

orthostyle orthostyles

orthostylic