PETERBURG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Peterburg mean? 

• PETERBURG (noun)
  The noun PETERBURG has 1 sense:

1. a city in the European part of Russia; 2nd largest Russian city; located at the head of the Gulf of Finland; former capital of Russia

  Familiarity information: PETERBURG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PETERBURG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in the European part of Russia; 2nd largest Russian city; located at the head of the Gulf of Finland; former capital of Russia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Leningrad; Peterburg; Petrograd; Saint Petersburg; St. Petersburg

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Peterburg" is a part of...):

Russia; Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)