"host family" meaning in English

See host family in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: host families [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} host family (plural host families)
  1. Tags: no-gloss, translation-hub Related terms: foster family Translations (a family which provides board and lodging to au pairs and students): 住家 (zhùjiā) (Chinese Mandarin), gastgezin [neuter] (Dutch), isäntäperhe (Finnish), famille d’accueil [feminine] (French), Gastfamilie [feminine] (German), vendéglátó/fogadó/befogadó család (Hungarian), ホストファミリー (hosuto famirī) (Japanese), 호스트 패밀리 (hoseuteu paemilli) (Korean), rodzina goszcząca [feminine] (Polish), принима́ющая семья́ (prinimájuščaja semʹjá) [feminine] (Russian), värdfamilj [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "a family which provides board and lodging to au pairs and students",
          "word": "住家"
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      "sense": "a family which provides board and lodging to au pairs and students",
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    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a family which provides board and lodging to au pairs and students",
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    },
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    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "a family which provides board and lodging to au pairs and students",
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    },
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      "sense": "a family which provides board and lodging to au pairs and students",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    },
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      "sense": "a family which provides board and lodging to au pairs and students",
      "word": "vendéglátó/fogadó/befogadó család"
    },
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      "sense": "a family which provides board and lodging to au pairs and students",
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    },
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      "lang": "Korean",
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      "sense": "a family which provides board and lodging to au pairs and students",
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      "sense": "a family which provides board and lodging to au pairs and students",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "a family which provides board and lodging to au pairs and students",
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