hosts

noun

plural of host
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

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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

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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

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Recent Examples of hosts This 64-acre waterfront park has trails, picnic facilities, and often hosts live music performances. — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2026 The city of Miami dismissed five citations issued to owner-hosts without a code enforcement board hearing or fines after their online listings were briefly removed. — Joan Chrissos, Miami Herald, 28 July 2026 Scandalous and journalistically inappropriate associations with television hosts. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026 Race weekends often introduce international guests to brisket for the first time, creating another small but meaningful cultural exchange between visitors and their Texas hosts. — Claudia Alarcón, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026 The broadcast featured longtime play-by-play man John Forslund, broadcast hosts Adnan Virk and Andi Petrillo, and a rotating cast of analysts including ex-NHLers Jody Shelley and Thomas Hickey, and former women’s hockey star Blake Bolden. — Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 28 July 2026 But despite persistent questions from talk show hosts and interviewers, both Sink and Marvel have stayed silent. — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 28 July 2026 Ticks operate a bit differently than mosquitoes, waiting for potential hosts to walk by to climb on rather than seeking them out directly. — Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 27 July 2026 So when cooks demanded real wages, prompting many hosts to take an interest in cooking their own food, the rule had to be canceled to allow the guests to offer compliments. — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 27 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hosts
  1. swarms
  2. armies
  3. announcers
  4. throngs
  5. battalions
  6. flocks
  7. hordes
  8. crowds
Noun
  • The swarms of flies that roamed the planet like a devouring fog enclosed the top of the tower, building new, shivering walls, buzzing in a frenzy of life and hunger.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 27 July 2026
  • The bright light attracts massive swarms of flying insects, chased by birds, which unwittingly get instantly vaporized mid-air by the invisible, high-temperature beams.
    — Indrabati Lahiri, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Definition of swarms
Noun
  • The Hightower high lord and his armies have occupied Tumbleton and have Rhaenyra in something of a bind.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
  • Sauron’s armies have marched across the whole of the world, conquering all in their path.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 25 July 2026
Definition of armies
Noun
  • The announcers continued to call out Fletcher’s lack of urgency in between moves.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • The Athletic counted, downloaded and listened to all 308 goals over 104 games, as called by Telemundo’s nine announcers, and found the longest call of the men’s World Cup.
    — Emily Olsen, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Definition of announcers
Noun
  • These friends describe a large party on Horn Island, which is a favorite gathering spot in the summer, with throngs of people spread out in the sun and surf and around numerous boats, some of them drinking in water known to be deep and dangerous.
    — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026
  • Just Friday, a member of the Blue Angels, the Navy’s flight-demonstration team, buzzed Pensacola Beach at extremely low altitude and a high angle of bank, close to throngs of spectators.
    — Brynn Tannehill, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026
Definition of throngs
Noun
  • The Israeli army built another five battalions of soldiers who were never engaged in service or finished their service and wish to return to duty.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026
  • These religious sites and sacred areas throughout Ukraine have not been used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces or Ukrainian volunteer battalions as staging grounds to fight against Russian forces.
    — Mark Temnycky, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Definition of battalions
Noun
  • The colony also has a population of New Zealand fur seals that laze around the rocks frequented by flocks of seabirds.
    — Todd Symons, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
  • The approach is partly inspired by collective behavior found in nature, including bird flocks and insect colonies.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 21 July 2026
Definition of flocks
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  • This is a real neighborhood with authentic shops and restaurants, removed from the hordes of tourists near the Duomo.
    — Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • That year, the number of possible points had changed from two hundred to four hundred, and the newspapers reported that this test had slaughtered hordes of top students.
    — Min Jin Lee, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
Definition of hordes
Noun
  • Videos shared on social media showed crowds of people walking through aisles of vendors outside before gunshots prompted people to flee.
    — Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 27 July 2026
  • The closure contrasts with two successful launches of new Asian grocery hubs Sakura Market and T&T Supermarkets in San Jose, which both opened this summer to enthusiastic crowds.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 27 July 2026
Definition of crowds

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