Hof

Hof means "courtyard" but also "farm" or "Royal court" in German. In architecture, the word Hof denotes an area that is surrounded by buildings or walls.

There are several communities in Europe with this name, including:

* Hof, Germany, a city in Bavaria, Germany
* Hof (district), a district in Bavaria
* Hof, Rhineland-Palatinate, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
*municipalities in Austria:
**Hof bei Salzburg, in the state of Salzburg
**Hof am Leithaberge, in Lower Austria
**Hof bei Straden, in Styria
* Hof, Vestfold, a municipality in Vestfold, Norway
* Hof, Hedmark, a former municipality in Hedmark, Norway
* Hof, Netherlands, a village in the municipality of Bergeijk
* Hof, Iceland, a small village in the south-east

Hof may also refer to:
* "Hof", is the Old Norse term for a heathen temple or church, presided over by a "hofgoði" or temple priest.
* Hof, a historic rectory in Vopnafjörður, Iceland
* In South Korea many bars use the word Hof to advertise that they sell beer. Many South Koreans, mistakenly, think that Hof is the German word for Hops.

HOF may be an abbreviation for:
*Higher-order function, a concept in programming languages like Haskell (programming language) or Scheme (programming language)
*Huisman-Olff-Fresco models, for modeling species response curves in ecology
*Hall of Fame
*Hypofluorous acid

HoF may refer to:
*House of Fraser, a British department store