hostee

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noun

A person whose content is hosted on a domain owned by somebody else.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

nounhostee (plural hostees)

plural hostees

  1. InternetA person whose content is hosted on a domain owned by somebody else.

    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)
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    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)

    Since there's a router port somewhere between your servers and the Internet, you can query it (or your host can if it's shared among multiple hostees) to find out your total incoming and outgoing data rate.

    2008, Cal Henderson, Building Scalable Web Sites

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gʰóstis
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pótis
  3. Proto-Indo-European*gʰóstipotis
  4. Proto-Italic*hostipotis
  5. Latinhospes
  6. Old Frenchoste
  7. Middle Englishhoste
  8. Englishhost
  9. Englishhostee

From host + -ee.

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APA

hostee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hostee

MLA

“hostee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hostee. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hostee,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hostee.

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