Hogwarts
/ˈhɒɡ.wɔːts/US/ˈhɔɡ.wɔɹts/
Hogwarts proper noun: hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school for learning magic in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
Proper noun
Hogwarts
- Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school for learning magic in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
- Buffy: No, but, see, Mom, that doesn't really work for me. We're just going to the magic shop, no school supplies there.
Dawn: Yeah, Mom. I'm not going to Hogwarts.2000, “Real Me”, episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Remember [...] what it was like to enter your first public or private school, or to arrive at places like Oxford, or Yale, or the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?2004, John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, page 5
- Buffy: No, but, see, Mom, that doesn't really work for me. We're just going to the magic shop, no school supplies there.
- Any institution similar in field, appearance, oddity, etc.
- The school, which is set within a grand castle (it's all very Hogwarts), is an international college for students who are selected for their potential2006 June 19, “Neil Finn to split NZ for Elroy”, in Sydney Morning Herald
- It all feels very Hogwarts.2009 June 2, “Meet the artist who'll be living in a museum”, in BBC News
Hogwarts meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Tagalog
Hogwarts in Hindi
- fictional school for learning magic
- हॉगवर्ट्स hŏgvarṭs
Hogwarts in Tamil
- fictional school for learning magic
- ஆக்வாட்சு ākvāṭcu
Hogwarts in Bengali
- fictional school for learning magic
- হগওয়ার্টস hogōẇarṭoś
Hogwarts in Tagalog
- fictional school for learning magic
- Hogwarts
More languagesFewer languages
- Hogwarts in Arabic
- هُوجْوَرْتْس hūjwarts
- Hogwarts in Persian
- هاگوارتز
- Hogwarts in Thai
- ฮอกวอตส์ hor-gwòt
Examples of Hogwarts in a sentence
- You do not need to be a Hogwarts grad to master that type of magic.2007, Steve Prentice, Cool Down: Getting Further by Going Slower, Wiley, page 190:
- reinventing the university as a mysterious place like a Hogwarts of intellectual capital2007, Cristina Chaminade, Bino Catasús, Intellectual Capital Revisited: Paradoxes in the Knowledge Intensive Organization, Edward Elgar...
- The BIS remains a global club for central bankers, a Hogwarts for financial wizards.2009, Kevin Mellyn, Financial Market Meltdown: Everything You Need to Know to Understand and Survive the Global Credit Crisis, ABC-CLIO...
- At Hogwarts School of Journalism and Blogging, protected by a Muggle-proof shield in the Scottish mountains, they teach us to make our headlines2010 January 20, “Liv Boeree looking hot in new Maxim photoshoot”, in Bluff Europe Magazine:
Origin of Hogwarts
Coined by J. K. Rowling in her 1997 book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Rowling has speculated that she might have subconsciously produced the name from hogwort, a plant she saw when walking round Kew Gardens. Previously used by Geoffrey Willans in his 1953 book Down With Skool (which J. K. Rowling has read - see the article). Willans’ use was as the title of a fictitious play, “The Hogwarts”, referred to in the book as the creation of Marcus Plautus Molesworthus. In-universe, interpreted as a simple compound of hog + warts (cf. warthog).
Words formed from Hogwarts
Questions about Hogwarts
- What does Hogwarts mean?
- Hogwarts means hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school for learning magic in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
- What is Hogwarts in Hindi?
- Hogwarts in Hindi is हॉगवर्ट्स (hŏgvarṭs). See Hogwarts meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use Hogwarts in a sentence?
- You do not need to be a Hogwarts grad to master that type of magic.
- What part of speech is Hogwarts?
- Hogwarts is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Hogwarts?
- Hogwarts is pronounced /ˈhɔɡ.wɔɹts/ (US).
Words near Hogwarts in the dictionary
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