soho

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
6
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/ˈsəʊ.həʊ/(UK)
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/ˈsəʊ.həʊ/(UK) · /ˈsoʊ.hoʊ/(US) · /ˈsəʊhəʊ/ · /ˈsəʊhəʊ/(UK) · /ˈsoʊhoʊ/ · /səʊˈhəʊ/

Definition of soho

9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  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."”
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name

  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 grid ref SP0389).
  3. (alt-of, alternative)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. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (A spacecraft of the ESA and NASA).
  5. A neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.
  6. 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.”
    “The fire started in a flat at No 9 on Gough Street at Shun King Building in the SoHo area of Sheung Wan at about 10.20pm.”

noun

  1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)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. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of small office, home office.

intj

  1. (obsolete)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."”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From the hunting cry soho.

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