SOHO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Soho mean? 

• SOHO (noun)
  The noun SOHO has 2 senses:

1. a district in southwestern Manhattan noted for its shops and restaurants and galleries and artist's lofts

2. a city district of central London now noted for restaurants and nightclubs

  Familiarity information: SOHO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOHO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A district in southwestern Manhattan noted for its shops and restaurants and galleries and artist's lofts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

SoHo; South of Houston

Instance hypernyms:

city district (a district of a town or city)

Holonyms ("SoHo" is a part of...):

Manhattan (one of the five boroughs of New York City)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A city district of central London now noted for restaurants and nightclubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city district (a district of a town or city)

Holonyms ("Soho" is a part of...):

British capital; capital of the United Kingdom; Greater London; London (the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center)

 Context examples 

And he gave a number of a street in Soho.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They are both in the employment of Harris & Sons, Moving and Shipment Company, Orange Master's Yard, Soho.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I took and furnished that house in Soho, to which Hyde was tracked by the police; and engaged as a housekeeper a creature whom I knew well to be silent and unscrupulous.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I made this choice perhaps with some unconscious reservation, for I neither gave up the house in Soho, nor destroyed the clothes of Edward Hyde, which still lay ready in my cabinet.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful reinvasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer’s eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

From the time he had left the house in Soho on the morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out; and gradually, as time drew on, Mr. Utterson began to recover from the hotness of his alarm, and to grow more at quiet with himself.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was in vain I looked about me; in vain I saw the decent furniture and tall proportions of my room in the square; in vain that I recognised the pattern of the bed curtains and the design of the mahogany frame; something still kept insisting that I was not where I was, that I had not wakened where I seemed to be, but in the little room in Soho where I was accustomed to sleep in the body of Edward Hyde.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I ran to the house in Soho, and (to make assurance doubly sure) destroyed my papers; thence I set out through the lamplit streets, in the same divided ecstasy of mind, gloating on my crime, light-headedly devising others in the future, and yet still hastening and still hearkening in my wake for the steps of the avenger.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)