Gotham

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Gotham

/ˈɡɒθəm/
/ˈɡəʊtəm/

Where it comes from

“Homestead where goats are kept”, from Old English gāt (“goat”) + hām (“home”).

* (New York City nickname): First used 1807 by Washington Irving in his Salmagundi Papers: see the quotation.

The original pronunciation had /th/ with later loss of /h/. The pronunciation with /θ/ is a spelling pronunciation that arose from a misreading of th as a digraph.

proper noun

Nickname for New York City: a major city in New York, United States. This passage of the erudite Linkum was applied to the city of Gotham, of which he was once Lord Mayor, as appears by his picture hung up in the hall of that ancient city;—but his observation fits this best of all possible cities "to a hair." It is a melancholy truth that this same New-York, though t
A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England, associated in folklore with insanity (OS grid ref SK5330).
abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of Gotham City: a fictional city serving as the primary setting for the Batman franchise.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: gothamite, g-men, gothette, gothicity, gawth, gothling, goth., gothmas, garden state, gaybourhood, gothdom, gaon, golgotha, gogo, gothic, gnomedom

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@misc{gotham_2026,
  title = {Gotham},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gotham},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}