PETERSBURG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Petersburg mean? 

• PETERSBURG (noun)
  The noun PETERSBURG has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: PETERSBURG used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PETERSBURG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Petersburg" is a part of...):

Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Petersburg; Petersburg Campaign

Instance hypernyms:

campaign; military campaign (several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints))

beleaguering; besieging; military blockade; siege (the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack)

Domain region:

Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)

Holonyms ("Petersburg" is a part of...):

American Civil War; United States Civil War; War between the States (civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865)

 Context examples 

For ten long years I roved about, living first in one capital, then another: sometimes in St. Petersburg; oftener in Paris; occasionally in Rome, Naples, and Florence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Scientists at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg's College of Marine Science used NASA satellite observations to discover and document the largest bloom of macroalgae in the world, dubbed the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)