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Soho

name
/ˈsəʊ.həʊ/UK/ˈsoʊ.hoʊ/US/ˈsəʊhəʊ//ˈsoʊhoʊ/US/səʊˈhəʊ/

Etymology

Acronym of South of Houston, a neighborhood south of Houston Street in Manhattan.

  1. derived from *h₁weydʰh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *widuz✻
  3. inherited from *widu✻
  4. inherited from wudu
  5. inherited from wode
  6. compounded as hollywood — “holly + wood”
  7. compounded as soho — “south + Hollywood”

Definitions

  1. An area of the West End, in central London.

    • I woke up in a Soho doorway / A policeman knew my name / He said, "You can go, sleep at home tonight / if you can get up and walk away."

  2. An area partly in Sandwell borough, and partly in Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS…

    An area partly in Sandwell borough, and partly in Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0389).

  3. Alternative spelling of SoHo

    Alternative spelling of SoHo: An area of Manhattan, New York.

    • The feisty wife of a world-renowned Russian sculptor emasculated an armed thug outside her Soho home — saying he “didn’t have the cojones to shoot her,” police sources said yesterday.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Acronym of Small Office, Home Office.

      • I bet if you look at the average home or SOHO PC, that it will have an old version of Java installed, […]

    2. Initialism of Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (A spacecraft of the ESA and NASA).

    3. A neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.

    4. A neighbourhood of Central and Western district, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.

      • There's an apartment building sitting on top of the hill of Soho in Hong Kong that is very atmospherically noir, so it's really too bad we couldn't film there.
      • When he heard about Omnipork at the Food’s Future Summit in Hong Kong last year, he contacted Right Treat to give it a try, and eventually added it to the vegetarian mapo tofu at his restaurant in the city’s SoHo district.
      • At No. 3 Staunton Street in the city’s SoHo district, the roughly 1,300 square-foot ground floor was once used as a parking space for a Ferrari.

    5. ho

      ho; halloo; a word used in calling from a distant place.

      • Proteus: Run, boy, run, run, and seek him out. Launce: Soho, soho! Proteus: What seest thou? Launce: Him we go to find […]
      • He then began to beat about, in the same language and in the same manner as if he had been beating for a hare; and at last cried out, "Soho! Puss is not far off. Here's her form, upon my soul; I believe I may cry stole away."

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA