Greenwich

English Etymology From en enm Greenwich, from en ang Grēnawīċ, ang Grēnewīċ green harbour, green settlement. Equivalent to en green -wich. The civil parish in New Brunswick may have been named after Greenwich near London, after en Greenwich Village, or after Greenwich Street in Hampstead, New York. Pronunciation en /ˈɡɹɛnɪt͡ʃ/ also /ˈɡɹɪn-/ /-ɪd͡ʒ/ en en-us-Greenwich.ogg US en En-uk-Greenwich.ogg UK en ɛnɪtʃ ɛnɪdʒ 2 town in Massachusetts town and village in New York (but not the neighborhood of Greenwich Village in New York City en /ˈɡɹinwɪt͡ʃ/ US Proper noun en place cc/England: en town on the south bank of the River Thames in south-east co/Greater London cc/England through which the prime meridian passes OS grid ref TQ3877. en royal borough in co/Greater London, which includes the town. en southern suburb town/Ipswich co/Suffolk OS grid ref TM1742. en hamlet par/Fonthill Gifford co/Wiltshire OS grid ref ST9232. en number of places c/USA: en town/and/CDP therein, in co/Fairfield County s/Connecticut. TopoZone: Greenwich, Connecticut en ucomm twp:Suf/Limestone co/Kankakee County s/Illinois. en CDP co/Sedgwick County s/Kansas. en former town co/Hampshire County s/Massachusetts, now largely submerged. en twp/and/CDP therein, in co/Cumberland County s/New Jersey. en twp co/Gloucester County s/New Jersey. en twp/and/CDP therein, in co/Warren County s/New Jersey. en neighborhood city/New York City s/New York, properly Greenwich Village. en Colin Woodard 24 American nations New York Penguin 2011 978-1-101-54445-7 [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. en town co/Washington County s/New York. en village co/Washington County s/New York, mostly within the town. TopoZone: Greenwich, New York en village/and/twp co/Huron County s/Ohio. en twp co/Berks County s/Pennsylvania. en ucomm co/Piute County s/Utah. en ucomm co/Prince William County s/Virginia. en civil parish co/Kings County p/New Brunswick c/Canada. en community p/Nova Scotia. en suburb city/Sydney s/New South Wales. en metonym The Prime meridian (Greenwich) Greenwich meridian; the prime meridian. en Are we east or west of Greenwich? Derived terms en Greenwich pensioner East Greenwich Greenwich Meridian Greenwich Mean Time Greenwich Park Greenwich Time Greenwich Time Signal North Greenwich Old Greenwich Greenwich antimeridian West Greenwich Translations east London town Arabic: ar غْرِينِيتْش m ḡrīnitš Armenian: hy Գրինվիչ Chinese: Cantonese: yue 格林威治 gaak3 lam4 wai1 zi6, yue 格林尼治 gaak3 lam4 nei4 zi6 Mandarin: cmn 格林尼治 Gélínnízhì, cmn 格林威治 Gélínwēizhì Dutch: nl Groenewijk f Esperanto: eo Greenwich French: fr Greenwich Galician: gl Greenwich Georgian: ka გრინვიჩი Greek: el Γκρίνουιτς n Hindi: hi ग्रीनविच Italian: it Greenwich Japanese: ja グリニッジ Gurinijji Korean: ko ^그리니치 Latvian: lv Griniča f Malayalam: ml ഗ്രീൻവിച്ച് Russian: ru Гри́нвич m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Гринич m Latin: sh Grinič m Spanish: es Greenwich m Tamil: ta கிரீன்விச் Ukrainian: uk Грінвіч Urdu: ur گرین وچ Welsh: cy Greenwich Further reading Royal Borough of Greenwich Prime meridian (Greenwich) References Anagrams en ceeghinrw rechewing en heteronyms Italian Etymology it :bor en:Greenwich it en Greenwich. Pronunciation Grìn.wit͡ʃ Proper noun ? it town on the south bank of the River Thames in south-east co/Greater London cc/England through which the prime meridian passes OS grid ref TQ3877. Derived terms it meridiano di Greenwich prime meridian