Greenwich

[grin-ij, -ich, gren-, gren-ich, grin-, green-wich]

noun

1. 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.

2. a town in SW Connecticut.

3. Informal.,  Greenwich Time.

Greenwich

/ ˈɡrɪnɪdʒ, -ɪtʃ, ˈɡrɛn- /

noun

1. 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)

Greenwich

1. Part of metropolitan London, in southeastern England.

The prime meridian, which is the meridian designated zero degrees longitude, runs through Greenwich; Greenwich Mean Time is the mean (usual) time in Greenwich. All other time is measured in relation to it.

Example Sentences

In New York, the lifestyle brand Kith is opening a members-only padel and wellness club in Greenwich Village called Kith Ivy.

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“That’s typically reserved for rich white kids that come from Greenwich.”

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He and Ocasek connected in Columbus, Ohio, and started performing together, at one point appearing as a folk duo in New York City’s Greenwich Village in the late 1960s.

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Betsey, also 18, has just started a psychology course at the University of Greenwich, and lives at home with her parents in London.

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She said that these days her clients often say they’d like to live in the West Village, Greenwich Village, Brooklyn Heights or the Upper East Side.

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