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• Soho
  Soho

  noun

  a district in London, England, including Soho Square: a predominantly foreign section since 1685; noted for its restaurants.
• SoHo
  SoHo

  noun

  a district in New York City, in lower Manhattan, south of Houston Street, where many of the old warehouses and buildings have been converted into studios, galleries, shops, and restaurants.
• soho
  soho

  interjection

  hunting an exclamation announcing the sighting of a hare

Soho

¹ American  

[soh-hoh, soh-hoh] / ˈsoʊ hoʊ, soʊˈhoʊ /

noun

1. a district in London, England, including Soho Square: a predominantly foreign section since 1685; noted for its restaurants.

2. SoHo.

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SoHo ² American  

[soh-hoh] / ˈsoʊ hoʊ /

noun

1. a district in New York City, in lower Manhattan, south of Houston Street, where many of the old warehouses and buildings have been converted into studios, galleries, shops, and restaurants.

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soho ¹ British  

/ səʊˈhəʊ /

interjection

1. hunting an exclamation announcing the sighting of a hare

2. an exclamation announcing the discovery of something unexpected

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Soho ² British  

/ ˈsəʊhəʊ /

noun

1. a district of central London, in the City of Westminster: a foreign quarter since the late 17th century, now chiefly known for restaurants, nightclubs, striptease clubs, etc

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Etymology

Origin of soho

an Anglo-French hunting call, probably of exclamatory origin

Example Sentences

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It also has shops in Soho in Manhattan as well as Uvita in Costa Rica.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

The first iteration of “The Remix” took place at Soho House in Los Angeles, which combined music and stand-up comedy by veteran comics like Carmen Morales, Francisco Ramos and Ian Edwards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Last week, we were invited to join Mahmood on police raids of mini-marts on Soho Road in the Handsworth area of Birmingham - a high street bordering her own constituency.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

With money from an English lover and the patronage of the notorious Chudleigh, Cornelys launched an “assembly and concert rooms” in 1760 at Carlisle House in fashionable Soho Square.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The Soho gallery was clamoring for more of her work, which they called “a huge step forward in super-ugly neorealism.”

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

The parade is the brainchild of Deitch, who staged similar events in New York’s SoHo between 2005 and 2008, drawing on Carnival traditions and Berlin’s Love Parade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

He claimed he had early access to sell shares of popular companies that were about to go public — including Instacart, SoHo House and Snapchat.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

In a SoHo office, a college dropout stares at a computer screen showing the flow of millions of dollars in bets from casual traders on the price of bitcoin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

That still leaves plenty of room to invite a smattering of friends to use the SoHo office for free when they like.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

She’d gotten a job as a waitress at a little diner near Grand Central and another at the Dick Blick in SoHo.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

Tom Steeple, however, had haunted him as his shadow, without ever coming in contact with him personally, and on this night he had him set as a soho man has a hare in her form.

From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

Peter, Soho, soho, Boy! does no Body come to the Door?

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus

London: printed for j. callow, crown court, princes street, soho.

From On the uncertainty of the signs of murder in the case of bastard children by William Hunter

Soho, soho, whither are you going so fast?

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus