Greenwich
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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).
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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).
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A place in England: A royal borough in Greater London, which includes the town.
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A place in England: A southern suburb of Ipswich, Suffolk (OS grid ref TM1742).
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A place in England: A hamlet in Fonthill Gifford parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST9232).
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A number of places in the United States: A town and census-designated place therein, in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
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A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Limestone Township, Kankakee County, Illinois.
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A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
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A number of places in the United States: A former town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, now largely submerged.
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A number of places in the United States: A township and census-designated place therein, in Cumberland County, New Jersey.
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A number of places in the United States: A township in Gloucester County, New Jersey.
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A number of places in the United States: A township and census-designated place therein, in Warren County, New Jersey.
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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.
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A number of places in the United States: A town in Washington County, New York.
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A number of places in the United States: A village in Washington County, New York, mostly within the town.
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A number of places in the United States: A village and township in Huron County, Ohio.
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A number of places in the United States: A township in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
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A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Piute County, Utah.
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A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Prince William County, Virginia.
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A civil parish of Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
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A community in Nova Scotia.
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A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.
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The Greenwich meridian; the prime meridian.
Are we east or west of Greenwich?
Etimologia
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.
Greenwich · 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…
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