1
as in swarms
a great number of persons or creatures massed together
a host of people assembled along the parade route to see the new president
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
2
as in armies
a large body of men and women organized for land warfare
the small band of defenders was no match for the enemy's mighty host of thousands
Synonyms & Similar Words
3
as in announcers
a person who conducts a program of entertainment by making introductions and providing continuity
our favorite morning TV show has a new host
Synonyms & Similar Words
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of hosts
The ninth-place team in each conference hosts the 10th-place team in another play-in game.
—
Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
Vancouver hosts Seattle next Tuesday.
—ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
Your 11th House of Hopefulness hosts Mars, which is presently sextiling defiant Uranus in your determined sign.
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2026
That same campy, communal energy is what Kane and fellow drag queen Katrina Prowess now bring to the Plaza each month as hosts of WussyVision.
—Tess Malone, AJC.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Sister Miriam hosts, interviewing other sisters about their lives, including education and personal conversion journeys.
—Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2026
People can carry their own, and hosts should stock their bathrooms with those products.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2026
The move surprised both hosts, given how important the NFL is to Fox’s business and the fact that the league is beginning to renegotiate all of its major media deals in the coming months.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 7 Apr. 2026
More celebrities are going on them to promote their projects, but these hosts are not interviewers.
—HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
Vancouver hosts Seattle next Tuesday.
—ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
Your 11th House of Hopefulness hosts Mars, which is presently sextiling defiant Uranus in your determined sign.
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2026
That same campy, communal energy is what Kane and fellow drag queen Katrina Prowess now bring to the Plaza each month as hosts of WussyVision.
—Tess Malone, AJC.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Sister Miriam hosts, interviewing other sisters about their lives, including education and personal conversion journeys.
—Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2026
People can carry their own, and hosts should stock their bathrooms with those products.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2026
The move surprised both hosts, given how important the NFL is to Fox’s business and the fact that the league is beginning to renegotiate all of its major media deals in the coming months.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 7 Apr. 2026
More celebrities are going on them to promote their projects, but these hosts are not interviewers.
—HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hosts
Noun
-
The power of drone swarms on battlefields has been witnessed in multiple wars to date.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Apr. 2026
-
Spring marks peak termite emergence because warmer temperatures bring out swarms of reproductive termites.—
Ana Durrani,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
-
In this island, or this Ireland, in 1986, there were a good number of armies.—
Colm Tóibín,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
-
The promise of automating out the drudgery of work and home by hacking together armies of agents feels so tantalizingly close, yet just out of reach.—
Sumeet Vaidya,
Fortune,
3 Apr. 2026
Noun
-
The game announcers spotted her immediately, and the camera kept returning to her throughout the action.—
Samantha Agate,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Apr. 2026
-
Others leaned into the humor of sports announcers going off-script.—
Samantha Agate,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
-
Last Saturday, in Grapevine, Texas, Pahlavi spoke to throngs of his supporters at the Conservative Political Action Conference.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2026
-
Vast plazas are missing the typical throngs of faithful and tourists.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
-
Rather, our liberties would be saved by the ragtag battalions of night people doing their tireless work, unpaid, unheralded, and largely unseen.—
Daniel Brook,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
-
Meanwhile, historical epics reimagine Ming dynasty battalions fighting fantastical monsters, using special effects and visuals in ways that traditional production might find prohibitively expensive.—
Faye Bradley,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
-
Come springtime in the Hamptons, the sight of large flocks of Canada geese, flying in V’s overhead or foraging in fields, brings mixed feelings.—
Emma Allen,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
-
The movie considered what would happen if flocks of birds, animals that linger in the background of many of our daily lives, suddenly rose up and attacked a small coastal town in California.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
Noun
-
In Raspail’s tale, hordes of impoverished and dark-skinned brutes from India descend onto French shores by way of rafts, the first wave of an invasion of the civilized West by the brown-skinned developing world.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
-
In the postseason, the dynamic is more like a pro league, with open locker rooms, one-on-one opportunities and hordes of reporters.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
-
Opening weekend crowds were 80% female, while 53% were between 18 and 34 years old.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2026
-
Magyar has visited scores of towns and cities, drawing huge crowds, even deep in traditional Fidesz territory.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
12 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Hosts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hosts. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
