Greenwich
a borough in SE London, England: located on the prime meridian from which geographic longitude is measured; formerly the site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
a town in SW Connecticut.
Informal. Greenwich Time.
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How to use Greenwich in a sentence
I meet Osment at a coffee shop in Greenwich Village for lunch.
Caroline Trimm, a nurse counselor at Greenwich House in the SoHo district of Manhattan, seems to have the opposite view.
One evening in the early '50's, I saw Coltrane in Sheridan Square, in Greenwich Village.
Last week, I sat down with Kristen Stewart in the lobby lounge of the Greenwich Hotel in downtown New York.
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Van Twiller was himself a grower of the plant and had his tobacco farm at Greenwich.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.A high-pressure pumping engine was at work at Greenwich, and some were at work in Cornwall.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickThis high-pressure puffer pumping engine at Greenwich, in 1803, worked a pump of 18 inches in diameter.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickThe boiler at Greenwich was heated red hot and burnt all the joints the Sunday before the explosion.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickThe Greenwich high-pressure puffer-engine did fourteen millions of duty with a bushel of coals, 84 lbs.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis Trevithick
British Dictionary definitions for Greenwich
/ (ˈɡrɪnɪdʒ, -ɪtʃ, ˈɡrɛn-) /
a Greater London borough on the Thames: site of a Royal Naval College (now used as the National Maritime Museum), including Inigo Jones’ Queen’s House (1617), and of the original Royal Observatory designed by Christopher Wren (1675), accepted internationally as the prime meridian of longitude since 1884, and the basis of Greenwich Mean Time; also site of the Millennium Dome. Pop: 223 700 (2003 est). Area: 46 sq km (18 sq miles)
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Cultural definitions for Greenwich
[ (gren-ich, grin-ij) ]
Notes for Greenwich
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