Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A word used in calling from a distant place; a sportsmen's halloo.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • interjection obsolete ho; halloo; a word used in calling from a distant place.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a district in southwestern Manhattan noted for its shops and restaurants and galleries and artist's lofts
  • noun a city district of central London now noted for restaurants and nightclubs

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Examples

  • If you can’t make it he’s also gonna be at the apple store in soho with catherine hardwick at 8: 30 pm on monday

    Twilight Lexicon » Rob Pattinson at Planet Hollywood NYC 2008

  • I’m used to working with my DoP Francesco Pezzino on film and doing a telecine grade with him at The Farm in soho, where the look of the film has so much depth and latitude that HD can’t really compete yet.

    Mark Davis: Plastic: Interview | SciFi UK Review 2006

  • Some believe it derives from a hunting cry; the Duke of Monmouth used 'soho' as a rallying call for his men at the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685.

    Evening Standard - Home 2009

  • Some believe it derives from a hunting cry; the Duke of Monmouth used 'soho' as a rallying call for his men at the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685.

    Evening Standard - Home 2009

  • Some believe it derives from a hunting cry; the Duke of Monmouth used 'soho' as a rallying call for his men at the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685.

    Evening Standard - Home 2009

  • I'm wearing my soho t-shirt, coffee on my mahler coasters (really) pluleezze!

    Wanderers Gemütsruhe Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Orange's recent alliance, with soho-based advertising company Film Club, created a bespoke iPhone commercial around the Orange Wednesday offering, further demonstrates a clear knowledge of user interest and preference.

    The Holy Grail of Marketing 2010

  • Do you have an example of post WW2 urban development from scratch that is a good example of urban form? ie, not using existing pre-automobile building stock like gastown or soho, but built new, like concord lands.

    The urban age: how cities became our greatest design challenge yet « Stephen Rees's blog 2010

  • Orange's recent alliance, with soho-based advertising company Film Club, created a bespoke iPhone commercial around the Orange Wednesday offering, further demonstrates a clear knowledge of user interest and preference.

    Chris Brassington: The Holy Grail of Marketing 2010

  • But sitting in a coffee shop in soho where everyone around you are also either writing a script or talking about art helps.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Niklas Asker 2009

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  • In Manhattan, it's South of Houston Street. Definitely borrowed from London

    June 21, 2008

  • acronym for "small office home officer"

    April 28, 2009