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Definition of Petersburg

1. Noun. A town in southeastern Virginia (south of Richmond); scene of heavy fighting during the American Civil War.

2. Noun. The final campaign of the American Civil War (1864-65); Union forces under Grant besieged and finally defeated Confederate forces under Lee.

Definition of Petersburg

1. Proper noun. a city in Virginia; various other towns and cities ¹

2. Proper noun. a campaign in the American Civil War ¹

3. Proper noun. Saint Petersburg, formerly Leningrad, a city in Russia ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Petersburg

Peter Paul Mauser Peter Paul Rubens Peter Seamus O'Toole Peter Seeger Peter Sellers Peter Stuyvesant Peter Tchaikovsky Peter principle Peter the Great Peterbald

Peterborough Peterburg Peters' ovum Petersburg (current term) Petersburg Campaign Petersen Peterson Petey Petit's aponeurosis Petit's canals

Petit's hernia Petit's ligament Petit's lumbar triangle Petit's sinus Petra Petrarca

Literary usage of Petersburg

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Where Petersburg now stands was once the site of an Indian village, ... Petersburg was founded by Peter Jones in 1733, incorporated as a town in 1784, ..."

2. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"St Petersburg. 1737, 1759, 1804. Annals. ... St Petersburg. 1841 sqq. Vol. II, pp. 230 sqq. ... St Petersburg. 1889-93. Ivan IV. Sudebnik. ..."

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