English edit

Etymology edit

Gotham +‎ -ite

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

Gothamite (plural Gothamites)

  1. (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[1], 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.
  2. (archaic) A Gothamist.
  3. (fiction) An inhabitant of the fictional Gotham City, the home of the superhero Batman.

References edit