city in Cambridgeshire, EC England: county district pop. 153,000
city in SE Ontario, Canada, near Toronto: pop. 70,000
former county of EC England, now part of Cambridgeshire
See Peterborough in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(pēˈtər-bûrˌə, -bər-ə, -bŭrˌō)
A city of southeast Ontario, Canada, northeast of Toronto. Settled in the 1820s as a lumbering town, it is now an industrial center and railroad junction. Population: 74,900.
A municipal borough of east-central England east of Leicester. Catherine of Aragon is buried in the cathedral here. Population: 136,000.