Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inhospitable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Inhospitable.

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  • adjective Without a host.
  • adjective obsolete inhospitable

Etymologies

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host +‎ -less

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Examples

  • The hostless (re: no Paige) aspect was probably part of why the show slipped out of my rotation.

    Saturday Link Dump – Two TV Links 2005

  • But why was her shadow sitting there, the lonely hostless guest of the night's caravansary?

    There & Back George MacDonald 1864

  • MTV made much of the fact that the 2011 edition of the Video Music Awards, held at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday night, would go hostless, but the fact that it went off without any apparent supervision came as a surprise.

    NYT > Home Page By JON CARAMANICA 2011

  • However, this won't be the first time the VMAs proceeds without a comic anchor; in both 2004 and 2007, the ceremony went hostless as well.

    The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Jen Chaney 2011

  • The site was seventh in attendance - the only one of the hostless arenas to crack the top

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2010

  • There isn't a perfect solution to avoid having hostless sites.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2010

  • It wasn't just the hostless sites that fell short of their guarantees and had to make up the difference to the NCAA.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2010

  • I think they did a really good job of transitioning into the new, hostless format.

    EclipseMagazine 2009

  • Hosts Grant Lawrence, Craig Norris, Lisa Christiansen, Lauren Burrows, Amanda Putz, and Buck 65 are your guides by day, and overnights are a hostless music mix of the best from CBC Radio 3's music library.

    CBC Radio 3 2009

  • Hosts Grant Lawrence, Craig Norris, Lisa Christiansen, Lauren Burrows, Amanda Putz, and Buck 65 are your guides by day, and overnights are a hostless music mix of the best from CBC Radio 3's music library.

    CBC Radio 3 2009

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