Associations to the word «Pittsburgh»

Wiktionary

PITTSBURGH, proper noun. A city in Pennsylvania, USA.
PITTSBURGH COMPOUND B, noun. A radioactive analog of thioflavin T, used in investigational studies of Alzheimer's disease.
PITTSBURGH RARE, adjective. (of a piece of meat) Very well done on the surface and very rare internally.

Dictionary definition

PITTSBURGH, 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats