Hof is a Germanic word found in German, Dutch, Old Norse, and Old English among others, designating a "courtyard, farmyard, royal court, hall, yard or garden". Technical meanings include: * Heathen hof, a type of Old Norse temple *''Bauernhof, Maierhof'', types of

Family farm A family farm is generally understood to be a farm owned and/or operated by a family; it is sometimes considered to be an Estate (land), estate passed down by inheritance. Although a recurring conceptual model, conceptual and archetype, archet ...

Places

It is very a common element in German, Dutch and Scandinavian place names, such as

Hofgeismar Hofgeismar () is a town in the Kassel (district), district of Kassel, in northern Hesse, Germany. It is located 25 km north of Kassel on the German Timber-Frame Road. In 1978 and in 2015, the town hosted the 18th ''Hessentag'' state festival. ...

or Tempelhof. By itself it may refer to the following places:

Austria

* Hof, Upper Austria, see

Sankt Marienkirchen am Hausruck Sankt Marienkirchen am Hausruck is a municipality in the district of Ried im Innkreis (district), Ried im Innkreis in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. Geography Sankt Marienkirchen lies in the Innviertel. About 18 percent of the municipality i ...

Hof bei Salzburg Hof bei Salzburg is a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung in the state of Salzburg in Austria. The mezzo-soprano Rosl Zapf (1925–2019) was born in Hof bei Salzburg. Geography Hof bei Salzburg is on the shore of the Fuschlsee ...

, a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung in the state of Salzburg *

Hof am Leithaberge Hof am Leithaberge is a town in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in Lower Austria in Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern ...

, a town in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in the state of Lower Austria * Hof bei Straden, a former municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in the state of Styria

Czech Republic

Hof in Mähren Hof is a Germanic word found in German, Dutch, Old Norse, and Old English among others, designating a "courtyard, farmyard, royal court, hall, yard or garden". Technical meanings include: *Heathen hof, a type of Old Norse temple *''Bauernhof, Mai ...

, the former Austrian and German name for the municipality of Dvorce in the Bruntál District in the Moravian-Silesian Region

Germany

Hof (district) Hof () is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the districts of Wunsiedel, Bayreuth, Kulmbach and Kronach, the states of Thuringia (district of Saale-Orla) and Saxony (district of Vogtland ...

, a Landkreis (district) in Bavaria **

Hof, Bavaria Hof () is a town on the banks of the Saale in the northeastern corner of the Germany, German state of Bavaria, in the Franconian region, at the Czech Republic, Czech border and the forested Fichtelgebirge and Frankenwald upland regions. The town h ...

, a town in the Hof district of Bavaria **

Hof (electoral district) Hof is an electoral constituency (German: ''Wahlkreis'') represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 239. It is located in nort ...

, an electoral district comprising the town of Hof and the districts of Hof and Wunsiedel *

Hof, Rhineland-Palatinate Hof is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a community belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen on the boundary with North Rhine ...

, a village in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate

Iceland

* Heathen hof, a type of Old Norse temple * Hof, Iceland, a small village in the municipality of Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður

Netherlands

* Hof van Delft, a former municipality west of Delft, South Holland * Hof van Holland, High Court of the provinces of Holland and Zeeland 1428–1811 * Hof van Savoye, Palace of Margaret of Austria in Mechelen, Antwerp * Hof van Twente, a municipality in Twente, Overijssel

Norway

* Hof, Åsnes, a village in Åsnes municipality in Innlandet county * Hof, Innlandet, a former municipality in the old Hedmark county * Hof, Vestfold, a former municipality in the old Vestfold county ** Hof Prison, a prison in Holmestrand municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county

People

* Hof (surname), a Dutch and German surname

Buildings

Hof Ásatrúarfélagsins Hof Ásatrúarfélagsins is a religious building under construction in Reykjavík, Iceland. When finished it will be used by the Heathen organization Ásatrúarfélagið for religious ceremonies, concerts, exhibitions and administrative work. ...

, temple in Reykjavík, Iceland *

Hofburg The Hofburg is the former principal imperial palace of the Habsburg dynasty. Located in the centre of Vienna, it was built in the 13th century and expanded several times afterwards. It also served as the imperial winter residence, as Schönbrunn ...

, the imperial palace in Vienna

Acronym

* HOf gauge, 1:87 rail modelling using 6.5 mm track. *

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* High on Fire, an American band *

Higher-order function In mathematics and computer science, a higher-order function (HOF) is a function that does at least one of the following: * takes one or more functions as arguments (i.e. a procedural parameter, which is a parameter of a procedure that is itself ...

* Horton overland flow *

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, a British department store * Huisman-Olff-Fresco models * Hypofluorous acid *

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, formerly HOF-TV, a Panamanian television network