·vt To give entertainment to.
II. Host ·noun Any great number or multitude; a throng.
III. Host ·noun An army; a number of men gathered for war.
IV. Host ·vi To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.
V. Host ·noun The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.
VI. Host ·noun One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.
VII. Host ·add. ·noun Any animal or plant affording lodgment or subsistence to a parasitic or commensal organism. Thus a tree is a host of an air plant growing upon it.