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Greenwich in British English
(ˈɡrɪnɪdʒ, -ɪtʃ, ˈɡrɛn-)
noun
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. Pop: 223 700 (2003 est). Area: 46 sq km (18 sq miles)
Greenwich in American English
(ˈgrɛnɪtʃ; Chiefly British ˈgrɪnɪdʒ; for 2, also ˈgrinwɪtʃ)
1.
borough of Greater London, England, located on the prime meridian: pop. 208,000: formerly the site of an astronomical observatory
see also Herstmonceux2.
suburb of Stamford, in SW Conn.: pop. 61,000
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