Gotham

Meaning

1. Nickname for New York City: a major city in New York, United States.
2. A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England, associated in folklore with insanity (OS grid ref SK5330).
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Gotham City: a fictional city serving as the primary setting for the Batman franchise.

Synonyms

Eton

Sale

Bath

🛀

Blackpool

Bradford

England

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Falmouth

Hereford

Ipswich

Leeds

Leicester

Nottingham

Plymouth

Portland

Preston

prime meridian

Reading

Scilly Islands

Sheffield

Sherwood Forest

Shrewsbury

York

Allerton

Holt

Badminton

🏸

Basingstoke

Bedford

Berwick-upon-Tweed

Blackburn

Bournemouth

Buckingham

Canterbury

Chatham

Chichester

Clifton

Doncaster

Folkestone

Glastonbury

Gloucester

Gosport

Guildford

Huddersfield

Kingston upon Hull

Ludlow

Maidenhead

Mansfield

Marlborough

Newbury

Northampton

Devonshire

Translations

إنجلترا

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

انجلترا

انكلترا

انكلترة

إنكلترا

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

إنكلترة

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Anglaterra

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

England

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Gotham

Αγγλία

Angleterre

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Inghilterra

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Albion

Anglia

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Engeland

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɡɒθəm/

Etymology

Inherited from Old English: -

In summary

“Homestead where goats are kept”, from Old English gāt (“goat”) + hām (“home”).
* (New York City nickname): First used 1807 by Washington Irving in his Salmagundi Papers: see the quotation.
The original pronunciation had /th/ with later loss of /h/. The pronunciation with /θ/ is a spelling pronunciation that arose from a misreading of th as a digraph.