Hogwarts

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhÉ’É¡.wɔːɹts/

Origin

Coined by J. K. Rowling in her 1997 book .

Rowling has speculated that she might have subconsciously produced the name from hogwort, a plant she saw when walking round Kew Gardens.

Full definition of Hogwarts

Proper noun

1. The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school for learning magic in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of books.
• 2000, “Real Me (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)”, episode of :Buffy: No, but, see, Mom, that doesn't really work for me. We're just going to the magic shop, no school supplies there.Dawn: Yeah, Mom. I'm not going to Hogwarts.
• 2004 John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (page 5) http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0195171578&id=ykz1vUT-CWEC&pg=RA2-PA5&lpg=RA2-PA5&ots=gJHdqbH2lh&dq=yale+hogwarts&sig=vilHWxAEonW9yRh2mTPKgUlQSG0Remember ... what it was like to enter your first public or private school, or to arrive at places like Oxford, or Yale, or the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
• 2005 A Modern Introduction To Probability And Statistics: Understanding Why and How by Michel Dekking, Frederik Michel Dekking, Cor Kraaikamp, H. P. Lopuhaä, L. E. Meester (page 126) http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1852338962&id=XLUMIlombgQC&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&ots=846rcIuft_&dq=%22+have+to+be+a+student+at+Hogwarts+to+be+able+to+get+the+values+of+p+night%22&sig=d0PEF2RXCs5j1EQECJuf-2QoSdQSince px(0), px(1), py(0) and py(1) are all equal to 1/2, knowing only px and py yields no information on ε whatsoever. You have to be a student at Hogwarts to be able to get the values of p right!
• 2005 2005 Wicca Almanac by various, Llewellyn, Elizabeth Barrette http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0738703087&id=wdVSV_qgBksC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=hogwarts&sig=APdluHbvH2rKPLxTvxx6e7tpYkYTeaching, if you've never done it, is a difficult task. There isn't a real-life Hogwarts to send your aspiring young Witch or wizard to, so teaching children falls to you, the parent.
• 2007, Steve Prentice, Cool Down: Getting Further by Going Slower, Wiley, page 190When people plan out their actions, they do more. When they write out their fears, they solve more. You do not need to be a Hogwarts grad to master that type of magic.
2. Any institution similar in field, appearance, or oddity.
• June 19, 2006, Neil Finn to split NZ for Elroy, The school, which is set within a grand castle (it's all very Hogwarts), is an international college for students who are selected for their potential
• Jun 2, 2009, Meet the artist who'll be living in a museum, It all feels very Hogwarts.
• 2007, Cristina Chaminade, Bino Catasús, Intellectual Capital Revisited: Paradoxes in the Knowledge Intensive Organization, Edward Elgar Publishing, page 75reinventing the university as a mysterious place like a Hogwarts of intellectual capital
• 2009, Kevin Mellyn, Financial Market Meltdown: Everything You Need to Know to Understand and Survive the Global Credit Crisis, ABC-CLIO, page 198The BIS remains a global club for central bankers, a Hogwarts for financial wizards.
• January20, 2010, Liv Boeree looking hot in new Maxim photoshoot, At Hogwarts School of Journalism and Blogging, protected by a Muggle-proof shield in the Scottish mountains, they teach us to make our headlines

Descendants

• Dracorex hogwartsia (species of dinosaur)

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