Host or hosts may refer to:
- A person who provides hospitality
- Host or sacramental bread
- Host (biology), organism harboring another organism on or in itself
- Host (psychology), "personality" emphasized in treating dissociative identity disorder
- Host (radio), the presenter or announcer on a radio show
- Host, headwaiter (Maître d' or Maître d'hôtel) of a restaurant or hotel
- Host, Pennsylvania
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Famous quotes containing the word host:
“Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“Pure was thy life; its bloody close
Hath placed thee with the sons of light,
Among the noble host of those
Who perished in the cause of Right.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
“Carlyle’s works, it is true, have not the stereotyped success which we call classic. They are a rich but inexpensive entertainment, at which we are not concerned lest the host has strained or impoverished himself to feed his guests. It is not the most lasting word, nor the loftiest wisdom, but rather the word which comes last.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)