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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, (sometimes hostess, in feminine form), the presenter for an event
Host, headwaiter (Maître d' or Maître d'hôtel) of a restaurant or hotel

Host (network), a computer connected to the Internet or another IP-based network
- Hosts file, a computer file to be used to store information on where to find an internet host on a computer network
- host (Unix), a command-line Unix command
- Internet hosting service, a service that runs Internet servers allowing organizations and individuals to serve content to the Internet
- Virtual host, allowing several DNS names to share the same IP address
Terminal host, a multi-user computer or software providing services to computer terminals, or a computer that provides services to smaller or less capable devices
Virtual machine host, a computer within which another computer is emulated and hosted by virtualization

Cossack host, was the administrative subdivision of Cossacks in Imperial Russia based on their location. There were:
- Amur Cossack Host
- Astrakhan Cossack Host
- Don Cossack Host
- Kuban Cossack Host
- Orenburg Cossack Host
- Semiryechye Cossack Host
- Terek Cossack Host
- Transbaikal Cossack Host
- Ural Cossack Host
- Ussuri Cossack Host
- Danube Cossack Host, an Imperial Russian Cossack Host formed from descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
- Zaporozhian Host, the Zaporozhian Cossacks who lived in Zaporizhia, in Central Ukraine
Furious Host or the Wild Hunt, a European folk myth
Heavenly host, an "army" of good angels in Heaven
- Lord of hosts, a common expression in the Old testament

The Hosts of Rebecca, a novel by Alexander Cordell about the Rebecca Riots
Avenging Host, a group of characters in Marvel Comics Earth X series of comic books
Rutan Host, fictional aliens from Doctor Who
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, several armies are Armies and Hosts of Middle-earth warfare, referred to as hosts
Hosts (World of Darkness), fictional characters in game Werewolf: The Forsaken