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Greenwich

proper noun

  1. place in southeast London, England
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Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɛnɪt͡ʃ/ / /ˈɡɹɪn-/ / /-ɪd͡ʒ/

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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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    [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.

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  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.

    Are we east or west of Greenwich?