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Hogwarts

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English

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Hogwarts Castle.

Etymology

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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.

According to the article Hogwarts, the name is a simple compound hog + warts (cf. warthog).

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Proper noun

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Hogwarts

  2. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school for learning magic in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
    • 2000, “Real Me”, episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
      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:
      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?
    • 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) [1]
      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!
    • 2005 2005 Wicca Almanac by various, Llewellyn, Elizabeth Barrette [2]
      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.
    • 2007, Steve Prentice, Cool Down: Getting Further by Going Slower, Wiley, page 190:
      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.
  3. Any institution similar in field, appearance, or oddity.
    • 2006 June 19, “Neil Finn to split NZ for Elroy”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
      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
    • 2009 June 2, “Meet the artist who'll be living in a museum”, in BBC News:
      It all feels very Hogwarts.
    • 2007, Cristina Chaminade, Bino Catasús, Intellectual Capital Revisited: Paradoxes in the Knowledge Intensive Organization, Edward Elgar Publishing, page 75:
      reinventing 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 198:
      The BIS remains a global club for central bankers, a Hogwarts for financial wizards.
    • 2010 January 20, “Liv Boeree looking hot in new Maxim photoshoot”, in Bluff Europe Magazine:
      At Hogwarts School of Journalism and Blogging, protected by a Muggle-proof shield in the Scottish mountains, they teach us to make our headlines

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Descendants

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  • Translingual: Dracorex hogwartsia (species of dinosaur, now recognized as a juvenile form of Pachycephalosaurus)

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English Hogwarts.

Proper noun

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Hogwarts n (genitive Hogwarts)

  1. Hogwarts

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