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Greenwich

//ˈɡɹɛnɪt͡ʃ// name

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  1. 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. 2
    A place in England:; A royal borough in Greater London, which includes the town.
  3. 3
    A place in England:; A southern suburb of Ipswich, Suffolk (OS grid ref TM1742).
  4. 4
    A place in England:; A hamlet in Fonthill Gifford parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST9232).
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; A town and census-designated place therein, in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Limestone Township, Kankakee County, Illinois.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; A former town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, now largely submerged.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; A township and census-designated place therein, in Cumberland County, New Jersey.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Gloucester County, New Jersey.
  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States:; A township and census-designated place therein, in Warren County, New Jersey.
  7. 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."

  8. 13
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Washington County, New York.
  9. 14
    A number of places in the United States:; A village in Washington County, New York, mostly within the town.
  10. 15
    A number of places in the United States:; A village and township in Huron County, Ohio.
  11. 16
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
  12. 17
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Piute County, Utah.
  13. 18
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Prince William County, Virginia.
  14. 19
    A civil parish of Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
  15. 20
    A community in Nova Scotia.
  16. 21
    A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.
  17. 22
    The Greenwich meridian; the prime meridian. metonymically

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.

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