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hostee

hostee noun: a person whose content is hosted on a domain owned by somebody else.

Noun

hostee (plural hostees)

  1. (Internet) A person whose content is hosted on a domain owned by somebody else.
    • My main domain (currently) is www.lovesuicide.com and you can see just by looking there's a LOT of stuff on there, some of my hostees themselves take up more than 20 megs of space.1999, manda, “I don't want to be another cihost casualty”, in alt.www.webmaster (Usenet)
    • Hi. Well, I'm starting a Hanson Fanfiction domain, but before I can actually start the process of registering the domain, I need atleast^([sic]) 4 hostees.1999, BabyCarrot, “Hanson fanfiction domain”, in alt.fan.hanson (Usenet)

Forms of hostee

pluralhostees

Origin of hostee

From host + -ee.

Questions about hostee

What does hostee mean?
Hostee means a person whose content is hosted on a domain owned by somebody else.
What part of speech is hostee?
Hostee is a noun.
What is the plural of hostee?
The plural of hostee is hostees.

Words near hostee in the dictionary

  1. hostaging
  2. hostas
  3. hosted
  4. hosted bar
  5. hosted bars
  6. hostee
  7. Hosteen
  8. hostees
  9. hostel
  10. hosteled
  11. hosteler

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