gotham

Go-tham · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    A nickname for New York City.

  2. 2.

    The fictional city in which Batman operates in DC Comics.

  3. 3.

    A village in Nottinghamshire, England, known from folk tales about the foolish "Wise Men of Gotham."

Related words

See also: New York, batman, metropolis

Etymology

From Old English Gotham (a village in England), meaning "goat homestead," later applied to New York City by Washington Irving in 1807.