Meaning

3 senses
  1. A country in which an international event is held.

    Chile is the host country for this year's conference.

    Austragungsland

    принима́ющая страна́prinimájuščaja straná, страна́-устрои́тельницаstraná-ustroítelʹnica

  2. A country which is the target of immigration.

    Many immigrants struggle to adapt themselves to the culture of the host country.

    принима́ющая страна́prinimájuščaja straná

  3. A country whose leaders accept the visitation of the representatives or agencies of another country.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. The host country's victory was earthshattering.

  2. The host country's triumph has a seismic effect.

  3. Kenya is a source of emigrants and a host country for refugees.

  4. Uganda has been both a source of refugees and migrants and a host country for refugees.

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
country which holds an international event:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
country which holds an international event:

Forms

plural: host countries
Singularhost country
Pluralhost countries

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedhost city

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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