peterburg

Questions about peterburg

What does peterburg mean?

peterburg means "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".

How many syllables are in peterburg?

peterburg has 3 syllables and divides as pe-ter-burg under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for peterburg?

Close synonyms include St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Petrograd, Saint Petersburg. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is peterburg a common word?

peterburg is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.