Bloomfield

Pittsburgh's Little Italy

Bloomfield is a common American place name, appearing as cities and towns across multiple states—most notably in New Jersey and Connecticut.

The name suggests a landscape of flowering meadows.

Bloomfield also functions as a surname; linguist Leonard Bloomfield pioneered American structural linguistics in the early twentieth century.

linguistics

structuralism

Analysis through underlying systems

descriptive · American · linguistics · mechanism · taxonomic · Algonquian · Tagalog · phonology · morphology · syntax

place

Connecticut

Northeastern American state

neighborhood · township · suburb · avenue · Hills · college · borough · municipality · downtown · residents

surname

Mike

Masculine given name

namesake · genealogy · ancestry · heritage

Opposites
Pittsburgh neighborhood character

BloomfieldOakland

East Bay California city

linguistic theory (Leonard Bloomfield)

BloomfieldNoam Chomsky

Influential linguist and activist

mentalism · nativism · rationalism

Family

field, bloom, flower, blooming, battlefield, bloomed, fieldwork

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G