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Peterborow

Peterborow is the obsolete spelling of Peterborough.

Meaning of Peterborough

Proper noun

Peterborough

  1. A cathedral city, unitary authority, and borough of Cambridgeshire, England.
  2. A town in South Australia, Australia.
  3. A town on the Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia.
  4. An independent city, the county seat of Peterborough County, Southern Ontario, Canada, named in honour of Peter Robinson.
  5. A town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.

Questions about Peterborow

What is Peterborow the obsolete spelling of?
Peterborow is the obsolete spelling of Peterborough.

Words near Peterborow in the dictionary

  1. peterbaylissite
  2. Peterborian
  3. Peterborians
  4. Peterborough
  5. Peterborough County
  6. Peterborow
  7. Peterburg
  8. Peterchurch
  9. Peterculter
  10. petered
  11. petered out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Peterborow (page history and authors); Peterborough (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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