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hostless

hostless adjective: without a host.

Adjective

hostless (not comparable)

  1. Without a host.
  2. (obsolete) inhospitable
    • a hostless house1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin of hostless

From host + -less.

Questions about hostless

What does hostless mean?
Hostless means without a host.
What part of speech is hostless?
Hostless is an adjective.

Words near hostless in the dictionary

  1. hostler
  2. hostlers
  3. hostlership
  4. hostlerships
  5. hostles
  6. hostless
  7. hostling
  8. hostly
  9. hostmask
  10. hostmasks
  11. hostmaster

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