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{{Jargon
|title=Host
|coinedby=unknown
|wherecoined=unknown
|status=Current
|datecoined=unknown
|partofspeech=* {{b|noun}}: "I am a host." or "We are a host."<br>* {{b|verb}}: "I am hosting my headmate Dan." or "I am host to several walk-ins."
|community=multiplicity, otherkin
}}
{{b|Host}} is a term used in several different ways.

In the [[multiplicity|multiplicity community]], which originated it, it is used to refer to the original mind or personality present in the body at birth or to the main [[fronting|fronter]].  In this sense, it is linguistically used in the sense of someone acting as a host or hostess to guests.

In the otherkin community, it is used to refer to a multiple system occupied by one or more entities, generally nonhuman, with no relationship to the body - aka [[walk-ins]] - and is linguistically used in the sense of a multitude, as in the poetic phrase "the faery host".  

Some otherkin hosts combine the two meanings, however, and use hosting to refer to a sort of long-term channeling of "guest" or walk-in entities.

[[Category:Otherkin Jargon]]
[[Category:Multiple Jargon]]