greenwich
/ˈɡɹinwɪt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A number of places in the United States:
name
A number of places in the United States:
name
A number of places in the United States:
name
A number of places in the United States:
Example Sentences
- "[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."
- "Are we east or west of Greenwich?"
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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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡɹinwɪt͡ʃ/