hoa

Interjection

1. (obsolete) ho; hey; a call for attention
   • Hoa, who is within here?1751, David Garrick, Every Man in His Humour (adapted from the 1598 work by Ben Jonson)

Proper noun capitalized: HOA

HOA

1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Horn of Africa.

Noun (1) capitalized: HOA

HOA (countable and uncountable, plural HOAs or HOA's)

1. (abbreviation, countable, initialism) Initialism of homeowner association.
   • By asking the community to let Collin continue to live there before he turns 19, the HOA would “ignore one of the community’s most fundamental restrictions,” according to the letter from the association’s attorney.2020 January 16, Scottie Andrew, “An orphaned teen is being forced out of his grandparents’ senior community because he’s too young”, in CNN
   • What I deemed a welcoming community when I moved into it (despite its name), feels uncomfortably different to me after someone from my HOA posted on Nextdoor (which groups members into virtual neighborhoods based on their real addresses) about removing “plantation” from Haile Plantation as a...2020 August 1, Yelena Moroz Alpert, “What my Nextdoor neighbors don’t get about the word ‘plantation’”, in CNN
2. (abbreviation, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy.

Noun (2) capitalized: Hoa

Hoa pl (plural only)

1. (plural, plural-only) A minority ethnic group of Vietnam, regarded as Chinese.