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Hogwarts
Hogwarts
English
Proper noun
Hogwarts
- 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”, 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)
- 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
- 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.
- 2000, “Real Me”, episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
- 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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Translations
a school for learning magic
Descendants
- Dracorex hogwartsia (species of dinosaur)