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The one person at the party whose stress you never see and always owe.
means The person who welcomes guests, puts on the event, and quietly absorbs all the friction so everyone else gets to enjoy themselves.
from From Latin hostis, which originally meant 'stranger' and curdled into 'enemy' (hence 'hostile') — but a parallel Latin word, hospes ('host, guest, stranger'), gave us the warmer branch of the family: hospitality, hospital, hospice, and host. So host and hostile are distant cousins born from the same unease about strangers — one leaned toward welcome, the other toward war.
- word origin
- Shares Latin root with hostis — enemy and stranger
- biology sense
- Also the body a parasite politely never leaves
- tv usage
- Job title for professionally liking everyone on camera
- internet sense
- Server that keeps your website alive or dead