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soho

/səʊˈhəʊ//ˈsəʊhəʊ/

soho interjection: ho; halloo; a word used in calling from a distant place.

Interjection

  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 […]c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • 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."1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC

Noun (1) capitalized: SoHo

SoHo (plural SoHos)

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

Proper noun (1) capitalized: SoHo

SoHo

  1. A neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: SoHo

SoHo

  1. 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.[2017 October, CHANG Yeongyeop, quoting Park Hoon-jung, “Interview Director PARK Hoon-jung on V.I.P.”, in Korean Cinema Today, volume 29, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 1
    • 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.2019 March 18, Andrew Genung, “It’s the Year of the Pig. Is it also the year fake pork takes off in China?”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2019, Food

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Soho

UK/ˈsəʊ.həʊ/US/ˈsoʊ.hoʊ/

Soho

  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."1978, The Who, “Who Are You”, in Who Are You

Proper noun (4) capitalized: Soho

UK/ˈsəʊ.həʊ/US/ˈsoʊ.hoʊ/

Soho

  1. An area partly in Sandwell borough, and partly in Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0389).

Proper noun (5) capitalized: Soho

UK/ˈsəʊ.həʊ/US/ˈsoʊ.hoʊ/

Soho

  1. (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.2013 July 10, Daniel Prendergast, “‘You don’t have the cojones’: 54-year-old woman fronts up to would-be muggers who pointed gun at her chest”, in New York Post, archived from the original on 02 Aug...

Noun (2) capitalized: SOHO

SOHO (plural SOHOs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) 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, […]2008 December 14, sm5w2@yahoo.com, “Re: What is the difference between Java JRE 5.x and 6.x (1.5.x / 1.6.x) ???”, in comp.lang.java.programmer (Usenet), retrieved 15 Dec 2008, message-ID...

Proper noun (6) capitalized: SOHO

SOHO

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (A spacecraft of the ESA and NASA).

soho meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

soho in Hindi

सोहो, सोहों

soho in Tamil

சோஹோ

soho in Marathi

सोहो

soho in Urdu

سوہو
More languagesFewer languages
soho in Bengali
সোহো
soho in Telugu
సోహో
soho in Malayalam
സോഹോ
soho in Kannada
ಸೋಹೋ
soho in Punjabi
ਸੋਹੋ
soho in Gujarati
સોહો
soho in Odia
ସୋହୋ
soho in Nepali
सोहो

Forms of soho

pluralSoHos
alternative formsoho
alternative formSOHO
alternative formSoho
pluralSOHOs
alternative formSoHo

Origin of soho

From so + ho!.

Abbreviation of Small office/Home office.

Acronym of South of Houston, a neighborhood south of Houston Street in Manhattan.

Words formed from soho

Words that rhyme with soho

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Questions about soho

What does soho mean?
Soho means ho; halloo; a word used in calling from a distant place.
What is soho in Hindi?
Soho in Hindi is सोहो, सोहों. See Soho meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is soho?
Soho can be an interjection, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce soho?
Soho is pronounced /səʊˈhəʊ/.

Words near soho in the dictionary

  1. Sohi
  2. Sohini
  3. Sohis
  4. Sohl
  5. Sohls
  6. soho
  7. Sohodol
  8. Sohoite
  9. Sohoites
  10. Sohonage
  11. SOHOs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soho (page history and authors); SoHo (page history and authors); Soho (page history and authors); SOHO (page history and authors); soho (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); soho (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); soho (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); soho (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); soho (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); soho (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); soho (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); soho (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); soho (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); soho (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); soho (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); soho (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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