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Pittsburgh

US/ˈpɪtsbɝɡ/

Pittsburgh proper noun: a city, the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Proper noun

Pittsburgh

  1. A city, the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
    • Because he was coincidentally situated in Pittsburgh, he had examined the brains of two former Pittsburgh Steelers players who were discovered to have had postconcussive brain dysfunction: Mike Webster, who became homeless and cognitively impaired before dying of heart failure in 2002; and Terry...2007 January 18, Alan Schwarz, “Expert Ties Ex-Player’s Suicide to Brain Damage”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2022
    • Together with our partner in Pittsburgh, Jewish Family and Community Services, and others across the country, we’ve directly resettled more than 450,000 refugees in the US since 1980 when the USRAP was established, according to HIAS annual reports.2018 November 5, Mark Hetfield, “HIAS chief: If you’re not combating hate speech, you’re accepting it”, in CNN, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2022
    Synonyms:
    PIT, PITT, Pgh.

Synonyms of Pittsburgh

Forms of Pittsburgh

alternative formPittsburg

Origin of Pittsburgh

From Pitt + -s- + -burgh (“fortified place”), named after William Pitt the Elder.

Words formed from Pittsburgh

Phrases with Pittsburgh

Questions about Pittsburgh

What does Pittsburgh mean?
Pittsburgh means a city, the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
What part of speech is Pittsburgh?
Pittsburgh is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Pittsburgh?
Pittsburgh is pronounced /ˈpɪtsbɝɡ/ (US).

Words near Pittsburgh in the dictionary

  1. pittosporums
  2. Pitts
  3. Pittsboro
  4. Pittsburg
  5. Pittsburg County
  6. Pittsburgh
  7. Pittsburgh compound B
  8. Pittsburgh left
  9. Pittsburgh lefts
  10. Pittsburgh potties
  11. Pittsburgh potty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pittsburgh (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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