Allegheny

[al-i-gey-nee]

noun

1. a river flowing NW from Pennsylvania into SW New York and then S through W Pennsylvania, joining the Monongahela at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River. 325 miles (525 km) long.

Other Word Forms

• Alleghenian adjective
• Alleghanian adjective
• trans-Alleghenian adjective

Example Sentences

He eventually was carted off and taken to Allegheny General Hospital in critical condition.

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Where I’m from, everybody who is Black in our city has a reference point to the Allegheny County Jail, which is in the middle of Pittsburgh.

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“If the climate is changing, and changing kind of rapidly, we have to develop potatoes that are adapted to the new climate,” Walter DeJong, a professor at Cornell University, told The Allegheny Front.

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With President Trump’s early lead eroding, Decision Desk HQ’s team focused on key Democratic strongholds, such as Philadelphia and Allegheny County, where Biden was picking up large margins of the vote.

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Officials in the US state of Pennsylvania have rejected claims that “illegal voters” were able to apply for ballots and vote at an election office in Allegheny County.

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