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Definition of Pittsburgh

1. Noun. A city in southwestern Pennsylvania where the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River forms the Ohio River; long an important urban industrial area; site of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.

Definition of Pittsburgh

1. Proper noun. A city in Pennsylvania, USA ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Pittsburgh

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The "North Side" of pittsburgh, formerly the city of Allegheny, occupies a comparatively level tract along the Allegheny and the Ohio rivers, broken nearly ..."

2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"Lit Digest 55:58 Dl '17 Thy song is like a lemon-tree; poem. Lit Digest 55:33 О 20 '17 pittsburgh Monuments Song to nature; Schenley memorial in pittsburgh. ..."

3. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1885)
"GENERAL LAFAYETTE'S VISIT TO pittsburgh IN 1825. [The-particulars of Lafayette's visit to pittsburgh in 1825 have lately excited some interest in that city, ..."

4. Annual Report by Archaeological Institute of America (1891)
"334 324 193 N. Hiland Avenue, pittsburgh. Allegheny and Western Avenues, ... Cedar Avenue, Allegheny City. t( ti a 308 S. Hiland Avenue, pittsburgh. ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"For the sake of brevity, we shall speak of those companies re- 4] spectively as the Pennsylvania Company, the pittsburgh Company, the Indiana Central ..."

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