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Soho

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈsəʊ.həʊ

Definitions

  1. An area of the West End, in central London.
  2. An area partly in Sandwell borough, and partly in Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0389).
  3. Alternative spelling of SoHo: An area of Manhattan, New York.
    alt-of, alternative
  4. Acronym of Small Office, Home Office.
  5. Initialism of Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (A spacecraft of the ESA and NASA).
  6. A neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.
  7. A neighbourhood of Central and Western district, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.

Equivalents

FrançaisSoho

Examples

“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."”
“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.”
“I bet⟳ if you look⟳ at the average home or SOHO PC, that it will have⟳ an old version of Java installed, […]”
“There's an apartment building sitting on top of the hill of Soho in Hong Kong that is very atmospherically noir, so it's really too bad we couldn't film there.”
“When he heard about Omnipork at the Food’s Future Summit in Hong Kong last⟳ year, he contacted Right Treat⟳ to give⟳ it a try⟳, and eventually added it to the vegetarian mapo tofu at his restaurant in the city’s SoHo district.”
“At No. 3 Staunton Street in the city’s SoHo district, the roughly 1,300 square-foot ground floor was once used as a parking space for a Ferrari.”
“The fire started in a flat at No 9 on Gough Street at Shun King Building in the SoHo area of Sheung Wan at about 10.20pm.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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