Usually means: Ancient city carved into rock.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. petra: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Petra: Merriam-Webster
  3. Petra: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Petra: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Petra: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Petra, Petra, petra: Wordnik
  7. Petra, petra: Wiktionary
  8. Petra: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Petra: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Petra: Dictionary.com
  11. PETRA, Petra (Illyricum), Petra (album), Petra (band), Petra (comics), Petra (disambiguation), Petra (dog), Petra (film), Petra (given name), Petra (sculpture), Petra (swan), Petra: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Petra: Rhymezone
  13. Petra: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Petra: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  2. PETRA: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Petra: Easton Bible

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. petra: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Petra)

noun:  stone, a weight equal to 14 pounds.
noun:  A female given name from Ancient Greek.
noun:  An ancient city and archaeological site in Jordan.
noun:  An ancient Hellenistic city and former bishopric in Roman Egypt; in full, Petra in Aegypto.
noun:  A medieval fortified town in Lazica, in the modern country of Georgia; modern Tsikhisdziri.
noun:  An ancient lost town in Corinthia in modern Greece.
noun:  An ancient lost town in Elis in modern Greece.
noun:  A modern village and community of Aliartos municipality in Boeotia, Greece.
noun:  A modern village and former municipality on the island of Lesbos, North Aegean region, Greece.
noun:  A modern former municipality of Pieria, Central Macedonia region, Greece.
noun:  A modern village in Preveza, Epirus region, Greece.
noun:  A former village and ghost town in Northern Cyprus, now uninhabited and largely destroyed.
noun:  A modern village in Bâcleș Commune, Mehedinţi County, Romania.
noun:  A modern town and municipality on the island of Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands, Spain.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Bracken County, Kentucky, United States.

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