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Host or hosts (feminine hostess) may refer to one of the following.

In Christianity:

• Heavenly host, an army of good angels in Heaven
• Host (Holy Communion), bread in the Eucharist

In culture:

• Host (event), a television or radio show host or presenter
• Host (album), a 1999 album by the band Paradise Lost
• Hosts (novel), a Repairman Jack novel by F. Paul Wilson
• Hosts (World of Darkness), antagonists from White Wolf's Werewolf: The Forsaken roleplaying game
• Rutan Host, a fictional extraterrestrial race from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who
• The Host (film), a sci-fi movie

In science and engineering:

• Bastion host, a machine that controls access between a private network and a public one
• Host (network), a node on a computer network that is a computer.
• Host computer, a machine that communicates via a network, includes servers and clients; in contrast to network transport devices such as routers and switches
• Hosts file, a file that serves to look up Internet Protocol addresses
• Smart host, a type of mail relay server which allows an SMTP server to route e-mail to an intermediate mail server
• Web host, a company or individual in web hosting who offers web space and sometimes a domain name
• Host (biology), an organism that harbors a parasite, mutual partner, or commensal partner
• Host (psychology), the most important mental entity in someone who has Dissociative Identity Disorder

Other:

• A restaurant host or Maître d'
• Hostess bar, a type of bar in Japan
• Host galaxy, a galaxy with an active galactic nucleus at its core
• Host station, a railway station on Melbourne's suburban rail network
• Cossack host, an administrative subdivision of Cossacks in Imperial Russia
• T. Parker Host, Sr., a mayor of Newport News, Virginia
• A small island near Vis, Croatia.
• Hostess (brand)

• The Host (disambiguation)

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