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Hof¹

proper noun

  1. An independent town in the Upper Franconia region, Bavaria, Germany.
  2. A rural district of the Upper Franconia region, Bavaria, Germany, surrounding but not including the town of Hof, which nevertheless serves as its administrative seat.

hof²

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German Hof. Doublet of howff.

noun hofs

  1. An enclosure, court, dwelling, building, or house. Ulrike lived in a farm hof, and all around me were the dark blank fields punctuated by a few disparate lights.

hof³

  • /hoʊf/

Rhymes with -oʊf

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Old Norse hof or Old English hof, reinforced in modern (post-1990, chiefly neopagan) use by Icelandic hof (“shrine, temple”).

noun hofs

  1. Germanic A temple, sanctuary, a shrine, or hall. For each ten churches burned to ashes, one heathen hof is avenged.

    Similar: garth

hof⁴

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Korean 호프 (hopeu), in turn from German Hofbräuhaus. In English, the spelling has been re-aligned with the Korean term's etymon.

noun hofs

  1. A Korean-style bar or pub. To the south are Korean spas, Korean barbecue joints and hofs, or Korean pubs.

HOF⁵

noun HOFs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of hall of fame
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of hall-of-famer
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of higher-order function

HoF⁶

noun HoFs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of hall of fame

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Hero of Ferelden; the player character in Dragon Age: Origins. In 9:31 Dragon the HoF slew the Archdemon.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: ecj, court, camera, bayreuth, landshut, fürth, schweinfurt, burghausen, cham, augsburg, aschaffenburg, haar, harburg, bavaria, ingolstadt, würzburg

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Chicago

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@misc{hof_2026,
  title = {hof},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hof},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}