HOV
/eɪt͡ʃ əʊ ˈviː/
HOV is the initialism of high-occupancy vehicle.
HOV is the initialism of high-occupancy vehicle lane.
HOV is the initialism of human-occupied vehicle.
Meaning of high-occupancy vehicle
Noun
high-occupancy vehicle (plural high-occupancy vehicles)
Meaning of high-occupancy vehicle lane
Noun
high-occupancy vehicle lane (plural high-occupancy vehicle lanes)
- A restricted traffic lane reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles with a driver and at least one passenger, including carpools, vanpools, and transit buses.
- Last month, Brandy Bottone of Plano, Texas, was pulled over by a Dallas sheriff’s deputy and given a ticket for driving alone in a high-occupancy vehicle lane.2022 July 12, Luke Vander Ploeg, “Can You Drive Alone in the H.O.V. Lane if You’re Pregnant? A Post-Roe Quandary.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2022
- Synonyms:
- carpool lane, diamond lane, HOV lane
Proper noun capitalized: Hov
Hov
- A village on Suðuroy, Faroe Islands.
- A village, the administrative centre of Søndre Land municipality, Innlandet, Norway.
Forms of HOV
| plural | HOVs |
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Words formed from HOV
Phrases with HOV
Questions about HOV
- What does HOV mean?
- HOV means a village on Suðuroy, Faroe Islands.
- What is HOV the initialism of?
- HOV is the initialism of high-occupancy vehicle.
- What part of speech is HOV?
- HOV is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce HOV?
- HOV is pronounced /eɪt͡ʃ əʊ ˈviː/.
Words near HOV in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: HOV (page history and authors); Hov (page history and authors); high-occupancy vehicle (page history and authors); high-occupancy vehicle lane (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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