host
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊst/
ipa: /hoʊst/
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: hosts
form: hoast
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis
Proto-Indo-European *pótis
Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis
Proto-Italic *hostipotis
Latin hospes
Old French ostebor.
Middle English hoste
English host
From Middle English hoste, from Old French oste (French: hôte), from Latin hospitem, accusative of hospes (“a host, also a sojourner, visitor, guest; hence, a foreigner, a stranger”), from *hostipotis, an old compound of hostis and the root of potis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis (“master of guests”), from *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, enemy”) and *pótis (“owner, master, host, husband”). Used in English since 13th century.
Senses: examples: text: A good host is always considerate of the guest’s needs.
text: Time is like a fashionable host, / That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.
glosses: One that provides a facility for an event.
examples: text: Our company is host of the annual conference this year.
glosses: A person or organization responsible for running an event.
examples: text: The host was terrible, but the acts themselves were good.
synonyms: presenter
glosses: A moderator or master of ceremonies for a performance.
qualifier: multiplicity
glosses: The primary member of a system, typically the member who fronts most often.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any computer attached to a network.
examples: text: Viruses depend on the host that they infect in order to be able to reproduce.
text: A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cell or organism which harbors another organism or biological entity, usually a parasite.
examples: text: The so-called junk DNA is known, so far, to provide no apparent benefit to its host.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
qualifier: evolution
glosses: An organism bearing certain genetic material, with respect to its cells.
glosses: A paid male companion offering conversation and in some cases sex, as in certain types of bar in Japan.
Hyponyms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: localhost
Derived terms: air host
bulletproof host
co-host
cohost
definitive host
dehost
DMZ host
graft-versus-host
graft-versus-host disease
host cell
host city
host country
hostel
hoster
hostess
host family
hostless
hostmask
hostmaster
hostname
host plant
host response
hostress
host rock
host selling
hostship
host species
host with the most
interhost
intrahost
jump host
mine host
multihost
mycohost
no-host
no host bar
nonhost
opinion host
play host to
reckon without one's host
webhost
web host
wraparound host
zombie host
Related terms: hotel
hospitable
hospital
hospitality
hostage