Host

The term host is most often used to describe a male (hostess in feminine form) presenter for an event.

Host or hosts may refer to:

• A person who provides hospitality
• 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, headwaiter (Maître d' or Maître d'hôtel) of a restaurant or hotel
• Host, Pennsylvania

In computing

• Host (network), a computer connected to the Internet or another IP-based network
  • Hosts file, a computer file to be used to store information on where to find an internet host on a computer network
  • host (Unix), a command-line Unix command
  • Internet hosting service, a service that runs Internet servers allowing organizations and individuals to serve content to the Internet
  • Virtual host, allowing several DNS names to share the same IP address
• In cross-compilation, the host machine is the computer the compiler is running on
• Terminal host, a multi-user computer or software providing services to computer terminals, or a computer that provides services to smaller or less capable devices, for example an xhost (X Window host)
• Virtual machine host, a computer within which another computer is emulated and hosted by virtualization
• Homeland Open Security Technology (HOST), a project to promote the creation and use of open security and open-source software in the United States government and military

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 1960 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 (Paradise Lost album), 1999
• Host (Critters Buggin album), 1996
• Hosts (novel), a 2001 book written by American author F. Paul Wilson
• Host, a 1993 book by Peter James
• Host, the third novel in the Rogue Mage series by Faith Hunter

Other

• Host station, railway stations in Melbourne, Australia with toilets etc
• Host, an author abbreviation in botany for Nicolaus Thomas Host

See also

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