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Date "GOTHAM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references) |
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Literature | Gotham Wise Men of Gotham - fools. Many tales of folly have been fathered on the Gothamites, one of which is their joining hands round a thornbush to shut in a cuckoo. The "bush" is still shown to visitors. It is said that King John intended to make a progress through this town with the view of purchasing a castle and grounds. The townsmen had no desire to be saddled with this expense, and therefore when the royal messengers appeared, wherever they went they saw the people occupied in some idiotic pursuit. The king being told of it, abandoned his intention, and the "wise men" of the village cunningly remarked, "We ween there are more fools pass through Gotham than remain in it." Andrew Boyde, a native of Gotham, wrote The Merrie Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham, founded on a commission signed by Henry VIII. to the magistrates of that town to prevent poaching. N.B. All nations have fixed upon some locality as their limbus of fools; thus we have Phrygia as the fools home of Asia Minor, Abdera of the Thracians, Boeotia of the Greeks, Nazareth of the ancient Jews, Swabia of the modern Germans and so on. (See Coggeshall.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Gotham is a village in Nottinghamshire, England, south of Nottingham and north-east of Kegworth. It is administered as part of the Rushcliffe district of Nottingham, and has a parish council.It has a twelfth-century church named for St Lawrence.
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fool | Sawney, gowk; clod, clod-hopper; clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate; bull calf; gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube; men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham. |
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Crosswords: GOTHAM |
| English words defined with "GOTHAM": Gothamist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GOTHAM": Coggeshall ♦ Gothamites ♦ Wise Men of Gotham. (references) |
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Screenplays | In Gotham City, Batman and Robin protect useven from plants and flowers. (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) Legend tells of a caped crusader, Batman, guardian of New Gotham, and his one, true love, Catwoman, the queen of the criminal underworld. (Birds of Prey; writing credit: Adam Armus; Nora Kay Foster) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Gotham Fish Tales (2003) Bauhaus: Gotham (1999) Batman: Gotham Knights (1997) Gotham (1988) | |
Song Titles | Gotham City (performing artist: R. Kelly) | |
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 | Halloo! Turks in Gotham. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Three wise men of Gotham, went to sea in a bowl, if the bowl had been stronger, my song had been longer -- Mother Goose. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gotham sweepstakes. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tiger hunt in Gotham. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gotham National Bank, New York City. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Gotham Book Mart. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Gotham Chopra | Not really. I mean I guess in some ways I am, but actually Gotham, Gotama Buddha. It's the original name of the Buddha, and it means the enlightened one, so I have a lot to live up to. |
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| "GOTHAM" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GOTHAM" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "GOTHAM" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gotham | Last name | 300 | 27,641 |
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Expression using "GOTHAM": wise men of Gotham. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "GOTHAM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | Sciocco (addled, booby, daffy, daft, doltish, featherbrain, fool, foolish, goofy, inane, Looby, loon, ludicrous, nincompoop, nitwit, noodle, sap, silly, simper, soppy, spoony, stupid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | othamgay простак (boob, coot, gaby, goose, greener, gull, innocent, juggins, lummox, man of Gotham, mug, muggins, noddy, noodle, patsy, sap, simp, simpleton, tomnoddy, wise man of Gotham), дурак (berk, blunderhead, bonehead, bone-head, cuddy, dimwit, fool, goof, goose, half-wit, jackass, juggins, lack-brain, log-head, man of Gotham, moke, mutt, mutton-head, ninny, nitwit, nut, pin-head, pumpkin-head, sap-head, sheep's head, sheep's-head, silly, softy, tomfool, tomnoddy, wise man of Gotham, wooden head). (various references) New York (new york). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-m-o-t" | |
-1 letter: magot, ogham. | |
-2 letters: atom, ghat, goat, math, moat, moth, oath, ogam, toga. | |
-3 letters: ago, gam, gat, goa, got, hag, ham, hao, hat, hog, hot, mag, mat, mho, moa, mog, mot, oat, ohm, tag, tam, tao, tho, tog, tom. | |
-4 letters: ag, ah, am, at, go, ha, hm, ho, ma, mo, oh, om, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-m-o-t" | |
+2 letters: apothegm, oghamist. | |
+3 letters: algorithm, apothegms, fathoming, goalmouth, hectogram, histogram, homograft, logarithm, oghamists, photogram. | |
+4 letters: algorithms, apophthegm, geothermal, goalmouths, hatemonger, hectograms, hematology, heterogamy, histograms, homogenate, homografts, homologate, largemouth, logarithms, outshaming, photograms, stomaching, thermogram, tomography. | |
+5 letters: algorithmic, apophthegms, badmouthing, cologarithm, earthmoving, gametophore, gametophyte, grandmother, hatemongers, hematologic, homogametic, homogenates, homologated, homologates, largemouths, logarithmic, marathoning, mothballing, mycophagist, mythography, outcharming, outmarching, outmatching, prognathism, thermograms, thermograph, thigmotaxes, thigmotaxis, thingamabob, tomahawking, tomographic. | |
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