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Definition of Bridgeport
1. Noun. A port in southwestern Connecticut on Long Island Sound.
Group relationships: Connecticut, Constitution State, Ct, Nutmeg State
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bridgeport
Literary usage of Bridgeport
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report by Illinois Highway Commission (1913)
"bridgeport-SUMNER ROAD, bridgeport TOWNSHIP, LAWRENCE COUNTY. Work began on this
road near the westerly limit of the city of bridgeport on the bridgeport ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"I quote from the sworn statement of Mr. David E. Smith, of bridgeport, who until
a short time ago, when the sale of game became unlawful in this state, ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1893)
"Conn.1—Mr. Avenir- List is "intended to include all species of birds known to
occur in a wild state within ten miles of bridgeport. ..."
4. Struggles and Triumphs: Or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum by Phineas Taylor Barnum (1883)
"It is vital to the narrative that I should give some account of the new city,
East bridgeport, and my interests therein, which led directly to my subsequent ..."