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Greenwich

/ˈɡɹɛnɪt͡ʃ/
/ˈɡɹɪn-/ also
/-ɪd͡ʒ/
/ˈɡɹinwɪt͡ʃ/ US

Rhymes with -ɛnɪtʃ, -ɛnɪdʒ

Where it comes from

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.

proper noun

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).
A royal borough in Greater London, which includes the town.
A southern suburb of Ipswich, Suffolk (OS grid ref TM1742).
A hamlet in Fonthill Gifford parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST9232).
A town and census-designated place therein, in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
An unincorporated community in Limestone Township, Kankakee County, Illinois.
A census-designated place in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
A former town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, now largely submerged.
A township and census-designated place therein, in Cumberland County, New Jersey.
A township in Gloucester County, New Jersey.
A township and census-designated place therein, in Warren County, New Jersey.
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.
A town in Washington County, New York.
A village in Washington County, New York, mostly within the town.
A village and township in Huron County, Ohio.
A township in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
An unincorporated community in Piute County, Utah.
An unincorporated community in Prince William County, Virginia.
A civil parish of Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
A community in Nova Scotia.
A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.
metonymically The Greenwich meridian; the prime meridian. Are we east or west of Greenwich?

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: gmt, village, analysis, logical, analyses, prime meridian, zero meridian, universal time, utc, greenwich meridian, standard time, world time, ut, zulu time, north greenwich, eltham

Translations

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name east London town

Español	Greenwich
한국어	그리니치 Geurinichi
日本語	グリニッジ Gurinijji
中文	格林尼治 Gélínnízhì, 格林威治 Gélínwēizhì
Français	Greenwich
Italiano	Greenwich
Ελληνικά	Γκρίνουιτς Gkrínouits
Русский	Гри́нвич Grínvič
العربية	غْرِينِيتْش ḡrīnitš

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@misc{greenwich_2026,
  title = {Greenwich},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/greenwich},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}