Godthab

See also: Godthåb

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish Godthåb.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Godthab

  1. (rare) Nuuk (the capital city of Greenland).
    • 2001 May 20, James Brooke, “Where Icebergs Are Born”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 11 June 2017:
      In full decolonization mode, Greenlanders also have abandoned the Danish names that once gave some of us a precarious toehold on their island's geography. Nuuk, for example, appeared on children's geography board games until recently as Godthab.
    • 2009 March 4, Charles Isherwood, “Gossip Boy, but Just for a Day”, in The New York Times‎[2], archived from the original on 26 November 2022:
      Godthab seems like the kind of place where television options would be limited, and thus “Gossip Girl” would be absolutely unknown.
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