Meaning of Greenwich | Babel Free

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1. A place in England:
2. 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).
3. A royal borough in Greater London, which includes the town.
4. A southern suburb of Ipswich, Suffolk (OS grid ref TM1742).
5. A hamlet in Fonthill Gifford parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST9232).
6. A number of places in the United States:
7. A town and census-designated place therein, in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
8. An unincorporated community in Limestone Township, Kankakee County, Illinois.
9. A census-designated place in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
10. A former town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, now largely submerged.
11. A township and census-designated place therein, in Cumberland County, New Jersey.
12. A township in Gloucester County, New Jersey.
13. A township and census-designated place therein, in Warren County, New Jersey.
14. A neighborhood of New York City, New York, properly Greenwich Village.
15. A town in Washington County, New York.
16. A village in Washington County, New York, mostly within the town.
17. A village and township in Huron County, Ohio.
18. A township in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
19. An unincorporated community in Piute County, Utah.
20. An unincorporated community in Prince William County, Virginia.
21. A civil parish of Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
22. A community in Nova Scotia.
23. A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.
24. The Greenwich meridian; the prime meridian.
    metonymically

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Examples

“[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.”

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