Greenwich
/ˈɡɹɛnɪt͡ʃ/ name
name ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A place in England:; A town on the south bank of the River Thames in south-east Greater London, England, through which the prime meridian passes (OS grid ref TQ3877).
- 2 A place in England:; A royal borough in Greater London, which includes the town.
- 3 A place in England:; A southern suburb of Ipswich, Suffolk (OS grid ref TM1742).
- 4 A place in England:; A hamlet in Fonthill Gifford parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST9232).
- 5 A number of places in the United States:; A town and census-designated place therein, in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
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- 6 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Limestone Township, Kankakee County, Illinois.
- 7 A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
- 8 A number of places in the United States:; A former town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, now largely submerged.
- 9 A number of places in the United States:; A township and census-designated place therein, in Cumberland County, New Jersey.
- 10 A number of places in the United States:; A township in Gloucester County, New Jersey.
- 11 A number of places in the United States:; A township and census-designated place therein, in Warren County, New Jersey.
- 12 A number of places in the United States:; A neighborhood of New York City, New York, properly Greenwich Village.
"[I]t was the old New Netherland hamlet of Groenwijck—its erratic country roads absorbed into the expanding city and renamed “Greenwich Village”—that became the federation’s first and foremost bohemian district."
- 13 A number of places in the United States:; A town in Washington County, New York.
- 14 A number of places in the United States:; A village in Washington County, New York, mostly within the town.
- 15 A number of places in the United States:; A village and township in Huron County, Ohio.
- 16 A number of places in the United States:; A township in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
- 17 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Piute County, Utah.
- 18 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Prince William County, Virginia.
- 19 A civil parish of Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
- 20 A community in Nova Scotia.
- 21 A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.
- 22 The Greenwich meridian; the prime meridian. metonymically
Example
More examples"Greenwich Village is a place which especially attracts the young."
Etymology
From Middle English Greenwich, from Old English Grēnawīċ, Grēnewīċ (literally “green harbour, green settlement”). Equivalent to green + -wich. The civil parish in New Brunswick may have been named after Greenwich near London, after Greenwich Village, or after Greenwich Street in Hampstead, New York.