Gotham Definition

gŏthəm
pronoun

Nickname for New York City; Washington Irving gave the name Gotham to New York City in his Salmagundi Papers (1807).

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A village in Nottinghamshire, England, associated in folklore with insanity.

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A fictional city, the hometown of Batman.

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Origin of Gotham

  • When originally used in England, the meaning of the place name Gotham was literally "homestead where goats are kept", from Old English gat 'goat' and ham 'home'.

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Gotham Sentence Examples

  • Call of Duty 2 sold out, as did Project Gotham Racing.

  • Returning to Gotham City, Wayne builds a lair (the Batcave) in his mansion and begins to fight crime, starting with the Scarecrow and continuing with the Joker in The Dark Knight.

  • In this "before" look at the man that will be Batman, Bruce is abroad, living among criminals in an attempt to prepare himself for the battle against injustice that awaits him in Gotham city.

  • Gotham is a cold and shadowy place, full of crime and greed and if there are good citizens in Gotham, the only ones you see are the rich and important - hardly a community an audience can connect with no matter how hard they strain.

  • It has a retractable hardtop, so I'm told, but in Project Gotham Racing 2 the top is always up.

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GGOGOT

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