Host

Look up host, hosts, or höst in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Host or hosts may refer to:

• Host or sacramental bread
• Host (biology) — organism harboring another organism on or in itself
• Host (psychology) — "personality" emphasized in treating dissociative identity disorder
• Host (radio), the presenter or announcer on a radio show
• Host, (sometimes hostess, in feminine form) — the presenter for an event
• Host, headwaiter (Maître d' or Maître d'hôtel) of a restaurant or hotel

Computer networking

• Host (Unix), a command-line Unix command
• Host (network), in computer networking
• Hosts file — a computer file used to store information on where to find a node on a computer network
• Internet hosting service — a service that runs Internet servers allowing organizations and individuals to serve content to the Internet

An army, group, or formation

• Cossack host — was the administrative subdivision of Cossacks in Imperial Russia based on their location. There were:
  • Amur Cossack Host
  • Astrakhan Cossack Host
  • Don Cossack Host
  • Kuban Cossack Host
  • Orenburg Cossack Host
  • Semiryechye Cossack Host
  • Terek Cossack Host
  • Transbaikal Cossack Host
  • Ural Cossack Host
  • Ussuri Cossack Host
  • Danube Cossack Host, an Imperial Russian Cossack Host formed from descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
  • Zaporozhian Host, the Zaporozhian Cossacks who lived in Zaporizhia, in Central Ukraine
• Furious Host or the Wild Hunt — a European folk myth
• Heavenly host, an "army" of good angels in Heaven
  • Lord of hosts, a common expression in the Old testament

Fictional military hosts

• The Hosts of Rebecca, a novel by Alexander Cordell about the Rebecca Riots
• Avenging Host, a group of characters in Marvel Comics Earth X series of comic books
• Rutan Host, fictional aliens from Doctor Who
• In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, several armies are Armies and Hosts of Middle-earth warfare, referred to as hosts
• Hosts (World of Darkness) — fictional characters in game Werewolf: The Forsaken

Titles of expressive works

• Host (album), a studio album recorded by British band Paradise Lost
• Hosts (novel) — a book written by American author F. Paul Wilson

Other

• Host station, railway stations in Melbourne, Australia with toilets etc.

See also

• Hosting - various meanings
• The Host (disambiguation)
• Hostess (disambiguation)

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