Host

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

Host may also refer to:

Places

People

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

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

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

Science

  • Host (biology), an organism harboring another organism or organisms on or in itself
  • Host (psychology), personality as emphasized in treating dissociative identity disorder
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gollark: Wow, that's very cool.
gollark: https://dragcave.net/lineage/1d53hA slightly confusing code.
gollark: If you live in Europe probably no gifts anyway, I doubt Santa is GDPR-compliant.
gollark: Or "I ha(c)k U".

See also

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