Host vs. Usher — What's the Difference?

One who receives or entertains guests in a social or official capacity.

One who is employed to escort people to their seats, as in a theater, church, or stadium.

A person who manages an inn or hotel.

One who greets guests at a wedding and escorts them to their seats.

One that furnishes facilities and resources for a function or event

One who serves as official doorkeeper, as in a courtroom or legislative chamber.

The emcee or interviewer on a radio or television program.

An official whose duty is to make introductions between unacquainted persons or to precede persons of rank in a procession.

An organism on which or in which another organism lives.

(Archaic) An assistant teacher in a school.

A cell that has been infected by a virus or other infective agent.

To serve as an usher to; escort.

(Medicine) The recipient of a transplanted tissue or organ.

To lead or conduct

A computer or other device providing data or services that a remote computer can access by means of a network or modem.

To precede and introduce; inaugurate

A computer that is connected to a TCP/IP network such as the internet.

To serve as an usher

An army.

A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.

A great number; a multitude.

A male escort at a wedding.

The consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist.

A doorkeeper in a courtroom.

To serve as host to or at

(obsolete) An assistant to a head teacher or schoolteacher; an assistant teacher.

To provide software that offers data or services, hardware, or both over a computer network.

Any schoolteacher.

One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.

To guide people to their seats.

One that provides a facility for an event.

To accompany or escort (someone).

A person or organization responsible for running an event.

(figuratively) To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald.

A moderator or master of ceremonies for a performance.

To lead or guide somewhere.

Any computer attached to a network.

An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc.

(ecology) A cell or organism which harbors another organism or biological entity, usually a parasite.

An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.

An organism bearing certain genetic material, with respect to its cells.

To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; - sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room.

A paid male companion offering conversation and in some cases sex, as in certain types of bar in Japan.

Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)

A multitude of people arrayed as an army; used also in religious senses, as: Heavenly host (of angels)

An official doorkeeper as in a courtroom or legislative chamber

A large number of items; a large inventory.

Someone employed to conduct others

(Christianity) The consecrated bread of the Eucharist.

Show (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums;

To perform the role of a host.

To lodge at an inn.

To run software made available to a remote user or process.

The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.

An army; a number of men gathered for war.

Any great number or multitude; a throng.

One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.

Any animal or plant affording lodgment or subsistence to a parasitic or commensal organism. Thus a tree is a host of an air plant growing upon it.

To give entertainment to.

To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.

A person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there

A vast multitude

An animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; the host does not benefit and is often harmed by the association

A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)

Archaic terms for army

Any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event;

(medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor

The owner or manager of an inn

A technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion

(computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network

Be the host of or for;