Hove
/hoʊv/noun
A town and seaside resort in East Sussex, England.
Did you know?Hove is an old place-name, and like many English coastal names, it preserves a fragment of early landscape language rather than a modern dictionary meaning.
Etymological Timeline
Old English
OE
hof
“a dwelling, house, or temple; an enclosed place”
Early Medieval
Old English
æt hôf
“at the dwelling/place-name element that later became part of a local settlement name”
Middle English
English
Hove
“the recorded form of the settlement name”
Modern English
English
Hove
“the town name used today”