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hosts files

hosts files is the plural of hosts file.

Meaning of hosts file

Noun

hosts file (plural hosts files)

  1. A plain text file used by an operating system to map hostnames to IP addresses.

Questions about hosts files

What is hosts files the plural of?
Hosts files is the plural of hosts file.

Words near hosts files in the dictionary

  1. hostrocks
  2. hostry
  3. hostryinge
  4. hosts
  5. hosts file
  6. hosts files
  7. hosts with the most
  8. hostship
  9. Hosur
  10. hot
  11. hot abscess

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hosts files (page history and authors); hosts file (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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