Bloomfield

[ bloom-feeld ]

noun

1. Leonard, 1887–1949, U.S. linguist and educator.
2. a city in NE New Jersey.
3. a town in N Connecticut.

Bloomfield

/ ˈbluːmˌfiːld /

noun

1. BloomfieldLeonard18871949MUSLANGUAGE: linguist Leonard . 1887–1949, US linguist, influential for his strictly scientific and descriptive approach to comparative linguistics; author of Language (1933)

Example Sentences

The Saab makes its way slowly through Bloomfield Hills, the tony Detroit suburb next to Birmingham.

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Public awareness is important,” says Bloomfield, “and phones are in right now.

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Haute couture usually makes you stand out, but Adam Harvey and Johanna Bloomfield imagine a future where it can help you hide.

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Executives mostly lived west of Interstate 75, in the northwest suburbs of Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills.

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So we have the pop-culture chefs, but also Alain Ducasse, Eric Ripert, Gabrielle Hamilton, April Bloomfield.

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Watt's first pumping engine was started at Bloomfield Colliery, March 8, 1776.

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I know nothing about Bloomfield, or of what is going on at Brighton.

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Arthur P. Bloomfield was reared in his native state and enjoyed the educational advantages afforded by the common schools.

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All that the considerate politeness of a Bloomfield or a Turner might effect was done to alleviate the fatal disappointment.

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A Burns, or a Bloomfield, would be thought nothing of in our time.

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