Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

great white way

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.27 in modern English

Syllables: great white way
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters.

Archaic; Literary

Example Sentences

"But Broadway's economic survival would be a Pyrrhic victory of sorts if artistic invention is slowly leached out in an attempt to make the Great White Way a New York outpost of the theme park–ing of America."
"The Great White Way was full of […] theater mavens and gamblers, goons and drunks—and also crooks, crooks aplenty in service to the next big score."

Etymology

So called from its brilliant illumination at night.

Usage

Inflected Forms

the Great White Way (canonical)

Questions

What does great white way mean?: Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters.
Where does great white way come from?: So called from its brilliant illumination at night.

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