Host
The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.
An army; a number of men gathered for war.
Any great number or multitude; a throng.
One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.
To give entertainment to.
To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.
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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Host Quotations
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Khalil Gibran
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
Evelyn Waugh
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
Aeschylus
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
H. G. Wells
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
Albert Schweitzer
After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
P. J. O'Rourke
Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
Guru Nanak
I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.
Jon Stewart
Host Translations
host in Dutch is gastheer
host in German is Hausherr, Wirt, Zentralcomputer, Hauptcomputer
host in Italian is ospitante
host in Latin is hospes
host in Norwegian is vert, skare
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