Hogwarts

Meaning

Proper Noun

• The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school for learning magic in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of books.
• Any institution similar in field, appearance, or oddity.

Origin

• 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.
• 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.