Pyotr
name
name ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A transliteration of the Russian male given name Пётр (Pjotr).
Synonyms
All synonymsAntonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"Kotlin Island, an island 32 kilometres west of Saint Petersburg, was taken from Sweden in 1703 by Peter the Great, who then founded Kronstadt and left Pushkin's great-grandfather, Abram Gannibal, the main character in Pushkin's unfinished book, Peter the Great's Negro, to oversee the construction. Kronstadt was also the birth place of Pyotr Kapitsa, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978."
Etymology
Transliteration of Russian Пётр (Pjotr). Doublet of Peter.