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Synonyms for host

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : hohst
Phonetic Transcription : hoÊŠst

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Définition of host

Origin :
  • "person who receives guests," late 13c., from Old French hoste "guest, host, hostess, landlord" (12c., Modern French hôte), from Latin hospitem (nominative hospes) "guest, host," literally "lord of strangers," from PIE *ghostis- "stranger" (cf. Old Church Slavonic gosti "guest, friend," gospodi "lord, master;" see guest). The biological sense of "animal or plant having a parasite" is from 1857.
  • noun person who entertains, performs
  • noun large group
  • verb entertain, accommodate
Example sentences :
  • These two have rallied their host upon his modishly trimmed side-whiskers.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • The laughter at this sally was all it should have been, even the host joining in it.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Then up the far slope he was lost at once in a host of trees.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • But, though his host suggested this, Andrew refused to move his blankets.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • He concluded merely that his host was talking for talk's sake, so talking rubbish.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • The Host had taken us to a far away part of his possessions.
  • Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
  • I found my host at dinner with his wife, little daughter, and sister-in-law.
  • Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
  • The wheels of our light cart, the host said, would do good rather than harm.
  • Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
  • My host told me that his animals were never worked on Sundays.
  • Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards

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