Associations to the word «Greenwich»

Wiktionary

GREENWICH, proper noun. A town on the south bank of the River Thames in London through which the prime meridian passes.
GREENWICH, proper noun. A borough of London.
GREENWICH MEAN TIME, proper noun. Mean solar time at the Greenwich Meridian.
GREENWICH TIME SIGNAL, noun. (British) A time signal transmitted on radio by the BBC every hour and consisting of five short beeps followed by a longer one, with the longer one coinciding with the start of the hour.

Dictionary definition

GREENWICH, noun. A borough of Greater London on the Thames; zero degrees of longitude runs through Greenwich; time is measured relative to Greenwich Mean Time.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats