Hosting
verbReceiving and entertaining guests, or acting as the organiser or presenter of an event.
How to spell hosting
7 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce hosting
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does hosting mean?
- verbReceiving and entertaining guests, or acting as the organiser or presenter of an event.
- nounThe service of storing a website or data on a server so it can be accessed online.
Hosting in a sentence
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verb
They are hosting a dinner party for twelve guests on Saturday.
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noun
The monthly fee covers domain registration and web hosting for the small business.
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verb
The company is hosting its annual conference in a downtown hotel.
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noun
They switched hosting providers after the site kept crashing during busy periods.
Where does hosting come from?
Language of origin: Latin
This word grows from the verb 'host', which English took from the Old French 'hoste', itself descended from the Latin 'hospes', a noun that curiously meant both 'guest' and 'host', that is, anyone bound by the duties of hospitality. The same 'hospes' root gave us 'hospital', 'hostel', and 'hospitality', all of which trace back to the idea of welcoming and sheltering a stranger. The verb 'to host', meaning to receive and entertain guests, became common in English by the late 1500s, and 'hosting' is simply its present participle and gerund, formed with the familiar '-ing' ending. In the twentieth century the verb gained a technical life: a computer or server can 'host' data or a website, and 'web hosting' became a whole industry. The spelling is mostly regular, but the silent 'e' of 'host' is dropped before '-ing', which is the small trap worth remembering.
How the word is built
- host (one who receives guests)
- -ing (verb/noun suffix)
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