Gotham

Meaning

Proper Noun

• village Rushcliffe (borough) Nottinghamshire (county) England (constituent country), associated in folklore with insanity .

Origin

• When originally used in England, the meaning of the place name Gotham was literally “homestead where goats are kept”, from Old English gāt + hām.
• As nickname for New York City, first used 1807 by Washington Irving in his Salmagundi Papers.{{cite-journal
• |date=April 18, 1807
• |author=Washington Irving
• |periodical=Salmagundi
• |publisher=G. P. Putnam's sons, New York
• |title=To Correspondents
• |page=183–184
• |pageurl=https://archive.org/details/salmagund00irvi/page/183
• |url=https://archive.org/details/salmagund00irvi
• As “Gotham City”, name of the fictional home of Batman, first mentioned in Batman issue 4, 1940.
• {{cite-web
• |date=Januar 25, 2011
• |author=Carmen Nigro
• |work=New York Public Library
• |title=So, Why Do We Call It Gotham, Anyway?
• |url=https://www.nypl.org/blog/2011/01/25/so-why-do-we-call-it-gotham-anyway