ST. PETERSBURG

 Dictionary entry overview: What does St. Petersburg mean? 

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

1. a city in western Florida on Tampa Bay; a popular winter resort

2. 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

  Familiarity information: ST. PETERSBURG used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ST. PETERSBURG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in western Florida on Tampa Bay; a popular winter resort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Saint Petersburg; St. Petersburg

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

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

Everglade State; FL; Fla.; Florida; Sunshine State (a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. In Spanish, Florida means Flowery)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Leningrad; Peterburg; Petrograd; Saint Petersburg; St. Petersburg

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

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

Russia; Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)

 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)