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Greenwich Village

[ gren-ich, grin- ]

noun

  1. a section of New York City, in lower Manhattan: inhabited and frequented by artists, writers, and students.


Greenwich Village

/ ˈɡrɪn-; ˈɡrɛnɪtʃ /

noun

  1. a part of New York City in the lower west side of Manhattan; traditionally the home of many artists and writers


Greenwich Village

  1. Neighborhood of Manhattan , in New York City .


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Notes

Home of many artists, writers, and musicians, Greenwich Village is known for the bohemian life-style of its inhabitants.

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Example Sentences

I meet Osment at a coffee shop in Greenwich Village for lunch.

One evening in the early '50's, I saw Coltrane in Sheridan Square, in Greenwich Village.

He told stories about his days as a penniless college student trying to make it in Greenwich Village.

When he goes to Greenwich Village, he has a mixture of material.

She shook me and we both saw its silver underbelly pass by the window of my fifth-floor walk-up in Greenwich Village.

And the area around Greenwich Village brought reports of continued horror.

Over Greenwich Village now, the circling planes—at their highest altitude, to avoid the upflung crimson beams—dropped bombs.

Gratia had cut her hair short, but she had introduced a style of hair-dressing new even to Greenwich Village.

Why, I can remember when artists—painters and writers—lived in Greenwich Village.

I suppose nothing in Greenwich Village could be more significantly illuminating than its eating places.

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