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

Bloomfield studies how modifying landscapes encourages interactions between people and wildlife and affects infectious disease emergence.

From Nautilus

In Uganda, Bloomfield’s research revealed greater edge density around households and activities such as collecting materials for house construction.

From Nautilus

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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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