Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh
- /ˈpɪtsbɝɡ/ US
Where it comes from
From Pitt + -s- + -burgh (“fortified place”), named after William Pitt the Elder.
proper noun Pittsburg
- 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 Lon
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: cleveland, philadelphia, pittsburg, wabash, pitt, wheeling, xenia, des, try, corning, steel city, the burgh, iron city, pgh, the point, fort pitt
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