Saint Petersburg
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- proper noun
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San Petersburgo
- He spent many years in Saint Petersburg as a diplomatic envoy from the king of Sardinia.
We had meetings all the way from New York to Saint Petersburg, Russia to Germany.
- We had meetings all the way from New York to Saint Petersburg, Russia to Germany.
- Yeah, like milling around the harbor in Saint Petersburg just still.
- And then up to Saint Petersburg, back to Moscow and fly out from Moscow.
- Elsa Bronstrom was born in Saint Petersburg to the Swedish military attache to Russia.
- Without it, the Russian Navy would have to rely upon its Saint Petersburg based Baltic Fleet.
- It was it was by Ken Follett and it was called the man from Saint Petersburg.
- The way it works is that most people in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, if there was a free and fair election, would vote against Putin.
- They rode to Saint Petersburg where he did get in and he did create the first periodic table.
- You know, I'm I'm fascinated by museums like been to the La Hermitage and Saint Petersburg, Russia, especially like the British Museum in England.
Examples
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Elsa Bronstrom was born in Saint Petersburg to the Swedish military attache to Russia.
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Question was, was Saint Petersburg a global city?
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So, yeah, so I left and I moved to Saint Petersburg to get away and start a new life and be happy for once.
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We had meetings all the way from New York to Saint Petersburg, Russia to Germany.
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Now remember this, you can take a train, a very short train, from Saint Petersburg to Finland.
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And then up to Saint Petersburg, back to Moscow and fly out from Moscow.
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I just came from Saint Petersburg and it was snowing and wow.
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In a land of extremes, the Inca built an empire that, if placed over the Old World, would stretch from Saint Petersburg to Cairo.
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He served for nearly twenty years as president of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, but held much greater political power (including dominion over more than 100,000 serfs) as the last hetman of Little Russia (ruler of Ukraine).
Academic text (1993) -
Many tourists visit Saint Petersburg to see its beautiful canals and historic architecture.
Synonyms
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Former name of Saint Petersburg from 1924 to 1991
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A large city in northwest Russia by the Gulf of Finland that was once the capital
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A former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia, from 1914 to 1924
A large city in northwest Russia that used to be the capital
Surface Forms
Morphology
saint + Petersburg
The name is compositionally transparent: 'Saint' (a holy person) combined with a place-name element ('Petersburg' = Peter + -burg/town) signals a toponym named after Saint Peter, so a learner who knows the parts can infer it denotes a place/city. Learners cannot deduce the exact geographic details (e.g., Florida vs. Russia) from the constituents, but the basic meaning 'a city named for a saint' is predictable and cross-linguistically common.
Etymology
Saint Petersburg was founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and named for Saint and Petersburg because he dedicated the new city to Saint Peter. So the name literally means 'Peter's town' and that is why the Russian port city is called Saint Petersburg today.