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- English Word Host Definition One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.
- English Word Host Definition To give entertainment to.
- English Word Host Definition To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.
- English Word Hostage Definition A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released.
- English Word Hostel Definition An inn.
- English Word Hostel Definition A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
- English Word Hosteler Definition The keeper of a hostel or inn.
- English Word Hosteler Definition A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or Cambridge.
- English Word Hostelry Definition An inn; a lodging house.
- English Word Hostess Definition A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house.
- English Word Hostess Definition A woman who entertains guests for compensation; a female innkeeper.
- English Word Hostess-ship Definition The character, personality, or office of a hostess.
- English Word Hostie Definition The consecrated wafer; the host.
- English Word Hostile Definition Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile country; hostile to a sudden change.
- English Word Hostile Definition An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; -- commonly in the plural.
- English Word Hostilely Definition In a hostile manner.
- English Word Hostilities Definition of Hostility
- English Word Hostility Definition State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.
- English Word Hostility Definition An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy.
- English Word Hostilize Definition To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.