Host Synonyms & Definitions

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• HostDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) An army; a number of men gathered for war.
2. (v. t.) To give entertainment to.
3. (n.) The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.
4. (n.) Any great number or multitude; a throng.
5. (v. i.) To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.
6. (n.) One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.
7. (n.) Any animal or plant affording lodgment or subsistence to a parasitic or commensal organism. Thus a tree is a host of an air plant growing upon it.

• HostageDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released.

• HostelDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
2. (n.) An inn.