Soho

[ soh-hoh, soh-hoh ]

/ ˈsoʊ hoʊ, soʊˈhoʊ /

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noun

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

SoHo.

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Other definitions for Soho (2 of 2)

SoHo

[ soh-hoh ]

/ ˈsoʊ hoʊ /

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.

Also Soho.

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How to use Soho in a sentence

Candyman from Nia DaCosta and Last Night in Soho from Edgar Wright will test the waters of audiences’ eagerness to pay to see specifically horror films on the big screen.
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Parked at different spots outside the Second Act set in SoHo, they were in good position to see Lopez and Remini filming their scenes.
Texts Reveal How the Church of Scientology Shadowed Leah Remini and Jennifer Lopez|Tony Ortega|June 17, 2021|The Daily Beast
On the first hot weekend of the summer, Richard Knapp put up a sign outside Mother’s Ruin, a bar tucked in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood.
Anti-vaxxers are weaponizing Yelp to punish bars that require vaccine proof|Tanya Basu|June 12, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Which would have required demolishing almost half of what was just starting to be called Soho.
How Does New York City Keep Reinventing Itself? (Bonus)|Kurt Andersen|March 21, 2021|Freakonomics

Osteria Morini in Soho will increase delivery, while Little Beet Table on Park Avenue says it may just close up shop on slow days.
Restaurants lure New Yorkers to states with fewer restrictions|Rachel Schallom|December 16, 2020|Fortune
We need to listen more closely to people like Jason, sitting in that Soho meeting.
The New Face of HIV Is Gay & Young|Adebisi Alimi|December 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Caroline Trimm, a nurse counselor at Greenwich House in the SoHo district of Manhattan, seems to have the opposite view.
New York Nurses Are the Calm in Ebola’s Storm|Abby Haglage|October 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On the face of it moving the talent to Soho can seem fatuous.
Nationalism on Four Wheels|Clive Irving|October 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A low point came when she was photographed by paparazzi crying in a Soho street after the break-up.
Inside the Harry and Cressie Make Up: Britain’s Favorite Royal Is In Love|Tom Sykes|October 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She has an appointment at the SoHo Apple Store to fix her 15-year-old Macbook.
Chloe Sevigny on ‘The Cosmopolitans,’ New York’s Frat Boy Takeover, and ‘Asshole’ Michael Alig|Marlow Stern|August 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The first steam rolling mill, with the exception of the one at Soho, was put up at Bradley ironworks.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
Visitors of Distinction in the old Soho days, were not at all rare, though they had not the advantages of travelling by rail.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
He found a cab and drove to Cambours, which was in Soho, and was fortunate enough to discover Whiteside in the act of leaving.
The Daffodil Mystery|Edgar Wallace
This condition was literally complied with; and his lordship died in Soho-square in the year 1766.
The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 1/2|Camden Pelham
He explained how he came to be pigging in Soho: it was so frightfully convenient and so frightfully cheap.
The Longest Journey|E. M. Forster

British Dictionary definitions for Soho (1 of 2)

soho

/ (səʊˈhəʊ) /

interjection

hunting an exclamation announcing the sighting of a hare

an exclamation announcing the discovery of something unexpected

Word Origin for soho

an Anglo-French hunting call, probably of exclamatory origin

British Dictionary definitions for Soho (2 of 2)

Soho

/ (ˈsəʊhəʊ) /

noun

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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