petrograd

Questions about petrograd

What does petrograd mean?

petrograd 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 petrograd?

petrograd has 3 syllables and divides as pe-tro-grad 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 petrograd?

Close synonyms include St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Peterburg, 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 petrograd a common word?

petrograd is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.