A host is a person responsible for guests at an event or for providing

hospitality Hospitality is the relationship between a guest and a host, wherein the host receives the guest with some amount of goodwill, including the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers. Louis de Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de J ...

during it. Host may also refer to:

Places

* Host, Pennsylvania, a village in Berks County

People

Jim Host Jim Host (born November 23, 1937 in Kane, Pennsylvania) is an American businessman best known for founding Host Communications, a pioneering collegiate sports-marketing and production services company that was acquired by IMG (company), IMG in 20 ...

(born 1937), American businessman *

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 In modern parlance, a colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule. Though dominated by the foreign colonizers, colonies remain separate from the administration of the original country of the colonizers, the ''metropole, metropolit ...

'' * 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 ''Earth X'' is a 1999 comic book limited series published by American company Marvel Comics. ''Earth X'' was written by Jim Krueger with art by John Paul Leon. Based on Alex Ross' notes, the series features a dystopian version of the Marvel Univ ...

, a group of characters in Marvel Comics' ''Earth X'' series of comic books *

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 *''

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

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 ...

, an influential hip-hop group in

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...

* ''Host'' (Critters Buggin album), 1996 * ''Host'' (Paradise Lost album), 1999 * ''Host'' (Cults album), 2020 *"Host", a song from the b-side of the 1999 single "

Cave A cave or cavern is a natural void in the ground, specifically a space large enough for a human to enter. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. The word ''cave'' can refer to smaller openings such as sea ...

" by Muse

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 An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...

* Host, a great number; multitude * Cossack host, military formations of Eastern Europe *Furious Host or the

Wild Hunt The Wild Hunt is a folklore motif (Motif E501 in Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature) that occurs in the folklore of various northern European cultures. Wild Hunts typically involve a chase led by a mythological figure escorted by ...

, a European folk myth

Religion

Heavenly host Heavenly host ( he, צבאות ''sabaoth'' or ''tzva'ot'', "armies") refers to the army () of angels mentioned both in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, as well as other Jewish and Christian texts. The Bible gives several descriptions of angels ...

, an "army" of good angels in Heaven *

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 Sacramental bread, also called Communion bread, Eucharistic bread, the Lamb or simply the host ( la, hostia, lit=sacrificial victim), is the bread used in the Christian ritual of the Eucharist. Along with sacramental wine, it is one of two elemen ...

, called the host or ''hostia'', used in Christian liturgy

Roles

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 *

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 *

Talk show host Below is a list of talk show hosts, sorted alphabetically by their surnames. __NOTOC__ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z See also * List of game show hosts This is a list of ...

, a presenter of a TV or radio talk show

Science

Host (biology) In biology and medicine, a host is a larger organism that harbours a smaller organism; whether a parasite, parasitic, a mutualism (biology), mutualistic, or a commensalism, commensalist ''guest'' (symbiont). The guest is typically provided with ...

, 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