Host facts for kids

Host(s) may refer to:

In Christianity:

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

In culture:

• Presenter, a person who presents an event
• 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 Werewolf: The Forsaken roleplaying game
• Rutan Host, a fictional extraterrestrial race from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who

In science and engineering:

• Host (network), when in reference to computer networking, an application instance that provides services to its clients (or client computers).
• 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

In other uses:

• Host (restaurant), a Maître d'
• Host station, a railway station on Melbourne's suburban rail network
• Host, Vis, a small island near Vis, Croatia

See also

In Spanish: Host (desambiguación) para niños