Word Meanings - HOST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration. Note: In the Latin Vulgate the word was applied to the Savior as being an offering for the sins of men.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HOST)
- Army
- Troops
- soldiery
- legion
- soldiers
- military
- phalanx
- host
- multitude
- Force
- Power
- strength
- agency
- instrumentality
- compulsion
- cogency
- vigor
- might
- dint
- vehemence
- pressure
- army
- coercion
- validity
- violence
- Multitude
- Crowd
- swarm
- accumulation
- throng
- concourse
- number
- mob
- rabble
- Plurality
- multitudinousness
- numerousness
- profusion
- collection
- Swarm
- crowd
- cluster
- mass
- press
- posse
- bevy
- flock
- troop
- drove
- herd
- horde
- crew
- gang
- shoal
- regiment
- myriad
- inundation
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HOST)
- Disperse
- scatter
- separate
- segregate
- Relax
- inhibit
- persuade
- entice
- allure
- solicit
- touch
- skim
- graze
- free
- liberate
- ease
- avoid
- relieve
Related words: (words related to HOST)
- FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - TROOPSHIP
A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport. - COGENCY
The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force. An antecedent argument of extreme cogency. J. H. Newman. - INHIBITORY
Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb. - POSSESSIVE
Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. Possessive case , the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the - MIGHTILY
1. In a mighty manner; with might; with great earnestness; vigorously; powerfully. Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Col. i. 29. 2. To a great degree; very much. Practical jokes amused - PERSUADER
One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton. - NUMBERFUL
Numerous. - RELAXANT
A medicine that relaxes; a laxative. - PERSUADED
Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n. - STRENGTHFUL
Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston. - POWERFUL
Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any - SHOAL
A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. "Great shoals of people." Bacon. Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides. Waller. (more info) to OS. skola; probably originally, a division, and akin - POWERABLE
1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden. - POSSE
See VOCABULARY - TROOPBIRD
Any troupial. - CROWD
1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas - REGIMENTALS
The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. Colman. - RELAXATIVE
Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n. - POSSESSIONER
1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc., - BESCATTER
1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser. - ELFLOCK
Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves. - INSEPARATE
Not separate; together; united. Shak. - BRABBLE
To clamor; to contest noisily. - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - CANDLE POWER
Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle. - HOTPRESSED
Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t. - REINVIGORATE
To invigorate anew. - APPRENTICESHIP
1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one). - DEFORCEOR
See DEFORCIANT