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Peterburg

Peterburg proper noun: synonym of Saint Petersburg: a federal city of Russia.

Proper noun

Peterburg

  1. (rare) Synonym of Saint Petersburg: a federal city of Russia.
    • This is the city of my prewar childhood, and for me personally it will remain Leningrad until my death. As for many old residents of Peterburg it remained Sankt-Peterburg until they died. To Aleksandr Benua, of all the mistakes of the “old” regime in Russia, it seemed that “the least justifiable...1991, JPRS Report: Soviet Union, Springfield, Va.: Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 99, column 1
    • Kozlov I. 1871. Astronomicheskie nablyudeniya dlya opredeleniya geogreficheskogo polozheniya mest i azimutov, proizvedennye vo vremya plavaniya Velikogo Knyazya Alekseya Aleksandrovicha rechnym putyom iz Peterburga v Arkhangelsk, Belym morem i Severnym Ledovitym Okeanom v 1870 godu (Astronomical...2000, Heritage of the Russian Arctic: Research, Conservation, and International Co-operation […], Moscow: Ecopros Publishers, →ISBN, page 98

Examples of Peterburg in a sentence

  • As for many old residents of Peterburg it remained Sankt-Peterburg until they died.1991, JPRS Report: Soviet Union, Springfield, Va.: Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 99, column 1:
  • Sankt-Peterburg. pp. 1–124. (In Russian)2000, Heritage of the Russian Arctic: Research, Conservation, and International Co-operation […], Moscow: Ecopros Publishers, →ISBN, page...
  • Slava Bogu, thanks to God, that at least the Romanovs had finally been laid to rest in an Orthodox service just last month in Sankt-Peterburg.2003, Robert Alexander, chapter 8, in The Kitchen Boy, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 88:

Synonyms of Peterburg

Origin of Peterburg

From Russian Петербу́рг (Peterbúrg). By surface analysis, Peter + -burg.

Questions about Peterburg

What does Peterburg mean?
Peterburg means synonym of Saint Petersburg: a federal city of Russia.
How do you use Peterburg in a sentence?
As for many old residents of Peterburg it remained Sankt-Peterburg until they died.
What part of speech is Peterburg?
Peterburg is a proper noun.

Words near Peterburg in the dictionary

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

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