What does "soho" mean?
Acronym of Small Office, Home Office.
Soho
/ˈsoʊ.hoʊ/ intj, name, noun
intj, name, noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Acronym of Small Office, Home Office.
- Grammar: soho is listed as intj, name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: home office, home-based business, office-based, small office.
- Useful contrasts: corporate office, corporate-grade, countryside.
- Usage evidence: 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."
How to use "soho"
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Acronym of Small Office, Home Office. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
"I bet if you look at the average home or SOHO PC, that it will have an old version of Java installed, […]"
- 2 Acronym of small office, home office. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Intj
- 1 ho; halloo; a word used in calling from a distant place. obsolete
"Proteus: Run, boy, run, run, and seek him out. Launce: Soho, soho! Proteus: What seest thou? Launce: Him we go to find […]"
Proper Noun
- 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.""
- 2 An area partly in Sandwell borough, and partly in Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0389).
- 3 Alternative spelling of SoHo: An area of Manhattan, New York. alt-of, alternative
"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."
- 4 Initialism of Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (A spacecraft of the ESA and NASA). abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 5 A neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.
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- 6 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."
Synonyms
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Example
"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.""
Common questions
What is a synonym for "soho"?
Common synonyms include: home office, home-based business, office-based, small office, small-office, soho district.
How do you use "soho" in a sentence?
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."
How do you pronounce "soho"?
Pronounced /ˈsoʊ.hoʊ/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From the hunting cry soho.
Etymology 2
Believed to be an abbreviation of south house.
Etymology 3
Abbreviation of Small office/Home office.
Etymology 4
Acronym of South of Houston, a neighborhood south of Houston Street in Manhattan.
Etymology 5
Blend of south + Hollywood. Acronym of south of Hollywood Road.
Etymology 6
From so + ho!.