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

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• Places
• People
• Arts, entertainment, and media
• Fictional entities
• Literature
• Music
• Other art and media
• Computing and technology
• Groups or formations
• Religion
• Roles
• Science
• See also

Host may also refer to:

Places

• Host, Pennsylvania, a village in Berks County
• Host Island, in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica

People

• Jim Host (born 1937), American businessman
• Michel Host (1942–2021), French writer
• "Host", an author abbreviation in botany for Nicolaus Thomas Host

Arts, entertainment, and media

Computing and technology

• Host (network), a computer participating in a computer network
  • hosts (file), mapping hostnames to IP addresses
  • host (Unix), a command
  • Hostname
  • Internet hosting service
  • Virtual host, hosting multiple domain names on a single server
• In hardware virtualization a host machine runs a virtual machine
• UOL HOST, a webhosting service

Groups or formations

• Cossack host, military formations of Eastern Europe
• Hueste, or host, a type of military force in the Iberian Peninsula and France during the Middle Ages
• 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
• Television presenter, the host or announcer on a television show
• Casino host
• Host, a paid male companion at a host club offering conversation and entertainment, primarily in East Asia
• 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
• Host (astronomy), the interactions and analysis of a star-planet relationship

See also

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

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