Host
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Etymology
Middle English hoste host, guest, from Anglo-French, from Latin hospit-, hospes, probably from hostis
- Date: 14th century
Definitions
- 1 a : one that receives or entertains guests socially, commercially, or officially
- b : one that provides facilities for an event or function <our college served as host for the basketball tournament>
- 2 a : a living animal or plant on or in which a parasite lives
- b : the larger, stronger, or dominant member of a commensal or symbiotic pair
- c : an individual into which a tissue, part, or embryo is transplanted from another
- 3 : a mineral or rock that is older than the minerals or rocks in it; also : a substance that contains a usually small amount of another substance incorporated in its structure
- 4 : a radio or television emcee
- 5 : a computer that controls communications in a network or that administers a database