Greenwich

专有名词
中文释义
美 /ˈɡɹinwɪt͡ʃ/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A place in England:; 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).
  2. A place in England:; A royal borough in Greater London, which includes the town.
  3. A place in England:; A southern suburb of Ipswich, Suffolk (OS grid ref TM1742).
  4. A place in England:; A hamlet in Fonthill Gifford parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST9232).
  5. A number of places in the United States:; A town and census-designated place therein, in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
  6. A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Limestone Township, Kankakee County, Illinois.
  7. A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
  8. A number of places in the United States:; A former town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, now largely submerged.
  9. A number of places in the United States:; A township and census-designated place therein, in Cumberland County, New Jersey.
  10. A number of places in the United States:; A township in Gloucester County, New Jersey.
  11. A number of places in the United States:; A township and census-designated place therein, in Warren County, New Jersey.
  12. A number of places in the United States:; 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.
  13. A number of places in the United States:; A town in Washington County, New York.
  14. A number of places in the United States:; A village in Washington County, New York, mostly within the town.
  15. A number of places in the United States:; A village and township in Huron County, Ohio.
  16. A number of places in the United States:; A township in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
  17. A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Piute County, Utah.
  18. A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Prince William County, Virginia.
  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. metonymically
    — Are we east or west of Greenwich?

词源

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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