greenwich

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
20
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈɡɹɛnɪt͡ʃ/
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/ˈɡɹɛnɪt͡ʃ/ · /ˈɡɹɪn-/ · /-ɪd͡ʒ/ · /ˈɡɹinwɪt͡ʃ/ (US)

Definition of greenwich

22 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

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    “[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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  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. (metonymically)The Greenwich meridian; the prime meridian.
    “Are we east or west of Greenwich?”

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Etymology

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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