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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, a village in Berks County
Talk show host, a TV or radio personality

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

Host/Peripheral (Master/slave) relationships are typically swappable with USB On-The-Go (USB OTG) devices.

Cross compiler host
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
Host machine, a computer that has a virtual machine running on it
Web host, a computer or group of computers that make a website available to the world
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

Cossack hosts comprised organic and administrative subdivision of Cossacks in Imperial Russia. Host names reflected location or origin. Cossack hosts included:
- Amur Cossack Host (1854–)
- Astrakhan Cossack Host
- Azov Cossack Host (1832–1862)
- Black Sea Cossack Host (1787–)
- Buh Cossack Host (1769–)
- Caucasus Line Cossack Host (1832–1860)
- Don Cossack Host
- Kuban Cossack Host (1860–1920)
- Orenburg Cossack Host (1755–)
- Semiryechye Cossack Host (1867–)
- Terek Cossack Host (1577–)
- Transbaikal Cossack Host (1851–)
- Ural Cossack Host
- Ussuri Cossack Host (1889–)
- Danube Cossack Host (1828–1868), an Imperial Russian Cossack Host formed from descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
- Zaporozhian Host (–1775), 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 epithet of the God of the Old Testament

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
J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Armies and hosts of Middle-earth warfare
In George R. R. Martin's fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, armies are often referred to as hosts.
Hosts (World of Darkness), fictional characters in game Werewolf: The Forsaken

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 **[[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
+*[[Master/slave (technology)|Host/Peripheral]] (Master/slave) are about device control relationships
+*[[USB On-The-Go|Host/Peripheral]] (Master/slave) relationships are typically swappable with USB On-The-Go (USB OTG) devices.
 *[[Cross compiler]] host
 *[[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