Host

A host is a person responsible for guests at an event or for providing hospitality during it.

Host may also refer to:

Places

• Host, Pennsylvania, a village in Berks County

People

• Jim Host (born 1937), American businessman
• Michel Host (born 1942), French writer
• "Host", an author abbreviation in botany for Nicolaus Thomas Host

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Hosts (World of Darkness), fictional characters in game Werewolf: The Forsaken
• Hosts, alien invaders and overlords in the TV series Colony
• Armies and hosts of Middle-earth warfare, fictional entities in J.R.R. Tolkien's works
• Avenging Host, a group of characters in Marvel Comics' Earth X series of comic books
• Rutan Host, fictional aliens from Doctor Who

Film

• Host (film), a 2020 horror film directed by Rob Savage

Literature

• Host, the third novel in the Rogue Mage series by Faith Hunter
• Host, a 1993 book by Peter James
• Hosts (novel), a 2001 book written by American author F. Paul Wilson
• The Hosts of Rebecca, a 1960 novel by Alexander Cordell about the Rebecca Riots

Music

• H.O.S.T., an influential hip-hop group in Azerbaijan
• Host (Critters Buggin album), 1996
• Host (Paradise Lost album), 1999

Computing and technology

• 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, in hardware virtualization, a machine on which a virtual machine runs
• Cross compiler, also called a "host", a computer platform on which software development is done for a different target computer platform
• UOL HOST, Universal Online's HOST webhosting service

Groups or formations

• Host, an archaic military term for an army
• Host, a great number; multitude
• Cossack host, an organic and administrative subdivision of Cossacks in Imperial Russia; host names reflected location or origin
• Furious Host or the Wild Hunt, a European folk myth

Religion

• Heavenly host, an "army" of good angels in Heaven
• Lord of hosts, a common epithet of the God of the Old Testament
• Sacramental bread, called the host or hostia, used in Christian liturgy

Roles

• Host (radio), the presenter or announcer on a radio show
• Casino host
• Maître d'hôtel (Maître d') or head waiter of a restaurant or hotel
• Master of ceremonies
• Talk show host, a presenter of a TV or radio talk show

Science

• Host (biology), an organism harboring another organism or organisms on or in itself
• Host (psychology), personality as emphasized in treating dissociative identity disorder

See also

• Hostess (disambiguation)
• Hosting (disambiguation)
• The Host (disambiguation)