Definition of Hosts

1. Noun. (plural of host) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of host) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hosts

1. host [v] - See also: host

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hosts

hostings
hostis humani generis
hostler
hostlers
hostless
hostly
hostmask
hostmasks
hostmaster
hostmasters
hostname
hostnames
hostries
hostry
hostryinge
hosts (current term)
hostship
hot-air balloon
hot-air balloons
hot-and-hot
hot-beef injection
hot-beef injections
hot-blooded
hot-brain
hot-brained
hot-brains
hot-chocolate
hot-desk

Literary usage of Hosts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"As early as the fourteenth century the making of hosts had become a business. ... Before the French Revolution, in many dioceses, each cure made the hosts ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The distribution of the expression "of hosts" may be set forth something like this: ... Whether the hosts of which Yahweh was God were those of heaven—the ..."

3. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane (1900)
"... fresh meadows; cool brooks—an existence of soft and eternal peace. Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds. ..."

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