Gothamite
English
Etymology
Gotham + -ite
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɒθəmaɪt/
Noun
Gothamite (plural Gothamites)
- (humorous, dated) An inhabitant of New York City.
- 1807, Washington Irving, Salmagundi, published 1874, page 399:
- The Gothamites made some semblance of defense, but their women having been all won over into the interest of the enemy, they were shortly reduced to make most abject submission […]
- 2020 September 1, Nolan Hicks, “Nearly half of New Yorkers think NYC is headed in the wrong direction”, in New York Post, retrieved 2020-12-07:
- Twenty-two percent of Gothamites surveyed by the conservative-leaning think tank’s pollsters named the city’s economy as their biggest worry, closely followed by 21 percent who said they were worried most about public safety.
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- (archaic) A Gothamist.
- (fiction) An inhabitant of the fictional Gotham City, the home of Batman.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Gothamite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)