Michel Host
Michel Host (1942 – 6 June 2021Nicolaus 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
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, ; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''.
From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlins ...
's works
* Avenging Host, a group of characters in Marvel Comics' ''Earth X'' series of comic books
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Rutan Host
Rutans are a fictional Extraterrestrial life in popular culture, extraterrestrial race from the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. They have been at war with the Sontaran, Sontaran Empire for more than 50,000 years, (thoug ...
, 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
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The Hosts of Rebecca
''Hosts of Rebecca'' is a novel by Alexander Cordell, first published in 1960. It is the second in Cordell's "Mortymer Trilogy", followed by '' Song of the Earth''.
Cordell's style and subject matter are reminiscent of Richard Llewellyn's ''How ...
'', a 1960 novel by Alexander Cordell about the Rebecca Riots
Music
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H.O.S.T.
H.O.S.T. was an influential Azerbaijani hip hop group, based in Baku.
The group's name derives from abbreviations of the classical elements in Azerbaijani language, which means hava (air), od (fire), su (water) and torpaq (earth).
The group w ...
* 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, military formations of Eastern Europe
*Furious Host or the Wild Hunt, a European folk myth
Religion
* Heavenly host, an "army" of good angels in Heaven
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Lord of hosts
Judaism considers some names of God so holy that, once written, they should not be erased: YHWH, Adonai, El ("God"), Elohim ("God," a plural noun), Shaddai ("Almighty"), and Tzevaot (" fHosts"); some also include Ehyeh ("I Will Be").This is the ...
, a common epithet of the God of the Old Testament
* Sacramental bread, called the host or ''hostia'', used in Christian liturgy
Roles
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Host (radio)
A radio personality (American English) or radio presenter (British English) is a person who has an on-air position in radio broadcasting. A radio personality who hosts a radio show is also known as a radio host, and in India and Pakistan as a radi ...
, the presenter or announcer on a radio show
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Television presenter
A television presenter (or television host, some become a "television personality") is a person who introduces, hosts television show, television programs, often serving as a mediator for the program and the audience. Nowadays, it is common for ...
, 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
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Talk show host
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See also
* List of game show hosts
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, 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
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Hostess (disambiguation)
A hostess is a female host or presenter of an event.
Hostess may also refer to:
Hospitality trades
* Air hostess, a flight attendant
* A female maître d' at a restaurant
* An employee at a hostess club
* Bargirl, a paid, female companion o ...
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Hosting (disambiguation)
Hosting may refer to:
* To act as the organizer or master of ceremonies for an event
* Self-hosting (compilers), software distribution which provides all necessary source code to enable itself to be re-compiled from scratch
* Internet hosting se ...
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The Host (disambiguation) The Host may refer to:
Fictional characters
* Lorne (Angel), a character on the television series ''Angel''
* A Marvel Comics supervillain
Literature
* The Host (Canterbury Tales), a character in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
* ''The ...