Noun: hof
Sample Sentences
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Ulrike lived in a farm hof, and all around me were the dark blank fields punctuated by a few disparate lights. [1993 May, Trevor William, “Jake's Castle”, in Harper's Magazine:]
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Like many old houses, this one had a front section, where I lived, and at the back an interior courtyard, the Hof, enclosed on all three sides by more apartments. [2009, Chloe Aridjis, Book of Clouds, 1st edition, New York: Black Cat:]
Nouns inflected like hof
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from German Hof. Doublet of howff. See: German Nouns '
Hof'.