Hogwarts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔɡ.wɔɹts/
ipa: /ˈhɔɡ.wɚts/
ipa: /ˈhɒɡ.wɔːts/
ipa: /ˈhɒɡ.wəts/
Etymology: Coined by J. K. Rowling in her 1997 book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Rowling has speculated that she might have subconsciously produced the name from hogwort, a plant she saw when walking round Kew Gardens.
Previously used by Geoffrey Willans in his 1953 book Down With Skool (which J. K. Rowling has read - see the article). Willan’s use was as the title of a fictitious play, “The Hogwarts”, referred to in the book as the creation of Marcus Plautus Molesworthus.
In-universe, interpreted as a simple compound of hog + warts (cf. warthog).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2000, “Real Me”, episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
text: Remember [...] 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?
ref: 2004, John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, page 5:
text: 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-2QoSdQ
Since 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!
text: 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=APdluHbvH2rKPLxTvxx6e7tpYkY
Teaching, 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.
text: When 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.
ref: 2007, Steve Prentice, Cool Down: Getting Further by Going Slower, Wiley, page 190:
glosses: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school for learning magic in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
examples: text: 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
ref: 2006 June 19, “Neil Finn to split NZ for Elroy”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
text: It all feels very Hogwarts.
ref: 2009 June 2, “Meet the artist who'll be living in a museum”, in BBC News:
text: reinventing the university as a mysterious place like a Hogwarts of intellectual capital
ref: 2007, Cristina Chaminade, Bino Catasús, Intellectual Capital Revisited: Paradoxes in the Knowledge Intensive Organization, Edward Elgar Publishing, page 75:
text: The BIS remains a global club for central bankers, a Hogwarts for financial wizards.
ref: 2009, Kevin Mellyn, Financial Market Meltdown: Everything You Need to Know to Understand and Survive the Global Credit Crisis, ABC-CLIO, page 198:
text: At Hogwarts School of Journalism and Blogging, protected by a Muggle-proof shield in the Scottish mountains, they teach us to make our headlines
ref: 2010 January 20, “Liv Boeree looking hot in new Maxim photoshoot”, in Bluff Europe Magazine:
glosses: Any institution similar in field, appearance, or oddity.
Derived terms: Hogwarts-esque
Hogwartsian
Hogwartsy