Gotham.
Nickname for New York City: a major city in New York, United States.
Meaning & usage
Nickname for New York City: a major city in New York, United States.
A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England, associated in folklore with insanity (OS grid ref SK5330).
Ellipsis of Gotham City: a fictional city serving as the primary setting for the Batman franchise.
Where this word comes from
“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.
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