soho
/ˈsoʊ.hoʊ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An area partly in Sandwell borough, and partly in Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0389).
name
Alternative spelling of SoHo: An area of Manhattan, New York.
noun
Acronym of Small Office, Home Office.
name
Initialism of Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (A spacecraft of the ESA and NASA).
noun
Acronym of small office, home office.
name
A neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.
name
A neighbourhood of Central and Western district, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.
Example Sentences
- "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.""
- "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."
- "I bet if you look at the average home or SOHO PC, that it will have an old version of Java installed, […]"
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsoʊ.hoʊ/
- British English: /ˈsəʊ.həʊ/