Hogwarts-esque

adjective

Resembling or characteristic of Hogwarts.

Meanings

adjectiveHogwarts-esque (comparative more Hogwarts-esque, superlative most Hogwarts-esque)

comparative more Hogwarts-esque · superlative most Hogwarts-esque · alternative Hogwartsesque

  1. Resembling or characteristic of Hogwarts.

    Near the campus’ east gate, medieval-looking Healy Hall impresses with its tall, Hogwarts-esque clock tower.

    2014, Karla Zimmerman, Pocket Washington DC, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 61, column 1
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    > Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley played Ellen, the Banks' Maid. / Interesting... Though if there were any British actress that our Hermio-ninny was named after, I would like it to be Hermione Gingold (Who once *did* play a Hogwarts-esque witch).

    2001 August 13, Dave Hardenbrook, “Is Rowling a Mary Poppins fan?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet)

    The castle will masquerade as the same location played by Toronto’s Casa Loma — Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, a Hogwarts-esque academy where telepathic Prof. Charles Xavier (Stewart) teaches mutants-in-training to control their superpowers.

    2002 May 29, Michael D. Reid, “X-Men to save universe at Royal Roads”, in Times Colonist, 144th year, number 167, Victoria, B.C., page C1, column 3

    The sky is definitely brightening and I can even see a patch of watery blue hanging around above a gobsmackingly large building with a huge carved stone doorway and ranks of stone animals tucked up against its Hogwarts-esque roofline.

    2017, Tallia Storm, Signed with a Kiss, Scholastic Children’s Boos, →ISBN, page 121

    Synonyms: Hogwartsian, Hogwartsy

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveResembling or characteristic of Hogwarts.

Origin

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