host

A host is a person or a location that provides for the needs of other people or things. There are many different kinds of hosts:

• The host of a TV show provides entertainment for the audience.
• The host at a restaurant receives customers and finds them a table. Sometimes, the word "hostess" is used when the host is a woman.
• The host at a party is the person who arranges for food, comfort, and other forms of hospitality.
• When you leave a party, make sure that you thank your host.
• The host for a website is the company that provides space on a server for the website to operate.

The word "host" is often used as a verb:

• Amazon hosts many websites around the world.
• I’m looking around for a new company to host my website.
• This year St. Louis will host the Superbowl.
• The people who live next door to me are hosting a big party this weekend.
• Have you ever hosted a party?
• Wink Martindale was the host for a famous game show on television.

He’s hosting a game show.

Click here for more vocabulary.

January 23, 2019