Gothamite

English

Etymology

From Gotham +‎ -ite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɒθəmaɪt/

Noun

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

• “Gothamite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.