hove
pronunciation
How to pronounce hove in British English:
UK [həʊv]
How to pronounce hove in American English:
US [ hoʊv]
Word Origin
- hove (v.1)
- "wait, linger, hover," mid-13c., of unknown origin. Chiefly nautical at first, of ships standing off a coast, also of birds in the air. Common 13c.-16c., then superseded by its derivative, hover.
- hove (v.2)
- "to rise up, to swell," 1590s, from heave, perhaps pulled from a past tense form.
Example
- 1. This bold new experiment is about to be tried in brighton and hove .
- 2. Perhaps the good folk of brighton and hove should worry less about jeremy falling in with the wrong sort of classmate , and more about him falling in with the wrong sort of teacher .
- 3. In hove , where an old hall was pulled down in the spring , affinity homes is building 35 new flats in its place , along with retail space and a doctor 's surgery .
- 4. One could , of course , try to negate the advantage that cash brings : this was presumably the philosophy behind brighton and hove 's decision in 2007 to allocate school places by lottery rather than proximity .
- 5. The qe2 cruise ship seemed to have a bright and brash future when it hove into port in dubai last year after 40 years as britain 's favourite cruise ship .