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Hiroshima

//hɪˈɹoʊʃɪmə// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan.
  2. 2
    The capital city of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan; the target of the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945.

    "A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy."

  3. 3
    The 1945 atomic bombing of the city.

    "VINCENT: Tens of thousands killed before sundown; nobody's killed people that fast since Hiroshima and Nagasaki."

Noun
  1. 1
    A catastrophe. figuratively

    "Stuxnet is the Hiroshima of cyber-war."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese 広(ひろ)島(しま) (Hiroshima).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 広(ひろ)島(しま) (Hiroshima).

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