Found 4 items, similar to Host.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: host
tuan rumah
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: host
ahlulbait, tuan rumah
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: host
host
n 1: 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: a vast multitude [syn:
horde,
legion]
3: an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite;
the host does not benefit and is often harmed by the
association [ant:
parasite]
4: a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an
introductory speech and introduces other speakers) [syn:
master of ceremonies
,
emcee]
5: archaic terms for army [syn:
legion]
6: any organization that provides resources and facilities for
a function or event;
“Atlanta was chosen to be host for
the Olympic Games”
7: (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a
donor
8: the owner or manager of an inn [syn:
innkeeper,
boniface]
9: a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass
or Holy Communion
10: (computer science) a computer that provides client stations
with access to files and printers as shared resources to
a computer network [syn:
server]
v : be the host of or for;
“We hosted 4 couples last night”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Host
Host
\Host\ (h[=o]st), n. [LL. hostia sacrifice, victim, from
hostire to strike.] (R. C. Ch.)
The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ,
which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread
before consecration.
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Note: In the Latin Vulgate the word was applied to the Savior
as being an offering for the sins of men.
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Host
\Host\, v. t.
To give entertainment to. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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Host
\Host\ (h[=o]st), n. [OE. host, ost, OF. host, ost, fr. L.
hostis enemy, LL., army. See
Guest, and cf.
Host a
landlord.]
1. An army; a number of men gathered for war.
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A host so great as covered all the field. --Dryden.
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2. Any great number or multitude; a throng.
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And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of
the heavenly host praising God. --Luke ii. 13.
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All at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils. --Wordsworth.
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Host
\Host\, v. i.
To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. [Obs.]
“Where
you shall host.” --Shak.
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Host
\Host\ (h[=o]st), n. [OE. host, ost, OF. hoste, oste, F.
h[^o]te, from L. hospes a stranger who is treated as a guest,
he who treats another as his guest, a hostl prob. fr. hostis
stranger, enemy (akin to E. guest a visitor) + potis able;
akin to Skr. pati master, lord. See
Host an army,
Possible, and cf.
Hospitable,
Hotel.]
1. One who receives or entertains another, whether
gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another
receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.
--Chaucer.
“Fair host and Earl.” --Tennyson.
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Time is like a fashionable host,
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.
--Shak.
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2. (Biol.) 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.
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