One who provides lodging; an entertainer, a host; a harbourer, n. common herberger, a common lodging-house keeper. Obsolete.

One who receives, lodges, or entertains guests and strangers; spec., in a monastery or religious house, one whose office was to attend to guests and…

A man who lodges and entertains another in his house: the correlative to guest.

A person who receives a guest or guests, esp. for a meal or social gathering; a person who shows hospitality; a host.

A host or entertainer (in private). Chiefly Scottish.

The host of a dinner or feast.

a person who holds a feast.

one who receives or entertains hospitably.

one who makes a guest of another; an entertainer, host (rare).