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Soho

proper nounproper nounproper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈsəʊ.həʊ//
  • United States//ˈsoʊ.hoʊ//

An area of the West End, in central London.

proper noun

  1. 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."

Etymology

From the hunting cry soho.

proper noun

  1. 1

    An area partly in Sandwell borough, and partly in Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0389).

Etymology

Believed to be an abbreviation of south house.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Variant of SoHoAlternative spelling of SoHo: An area of Manhattan, New York.

    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.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).