soho
pronunciation
How to pronounce soho in British English:
UK [səuˈhəu]
How to pronounce soho in American English:
US [ˈsoˌho]
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- Noun:
- a city district of central London now noted for restaurants and nightclubs
Word Origin
- Soho
- district in New York city, 1969, from "South of Houston Street," but probably also echoing the name of the London neighborhood (famous for vice by early 19c.), which was so called since at least 1630s, originally "So Ho," a hunting cry (c. 1300) used in calling from a distant place to alert hounds and other hunters; the West End district was so called from earlier association of this area with hunting.
Example
- 1. The most complicated area was the sewage system around canal street in soho .
- 2. Soho china is one of beijing 's biggest real-estate developers .
- 3. And in the yard , a gay bar in soho , most drinkers think the tories are moving in the right direction .
- 4. Of all quarters in the queer adventurous amalgam called london , soho is perhaps least suited to the forsyte spirit .
- 5. Soho declined to provide further details .