name
Meaning 1
A prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
Hiroshima
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /hɪ(ə)ˈɹɒʃɪmə/
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UK: /hɪ(ə)ɹəˈʃiːmə/
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US: /hɪˈɹoʊʃɪmə/
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US: /hɪɹoʊˈʃiːmə/
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name
Meaning 2
The capital city of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan; the target of the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945.
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name
Meaning 3
The 1945 atomic bombing of the city.
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noun
Meaning 4
A catastrophe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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noun
Meaning 5
a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: city, metropolis, urban center, port
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 広(ひろ)島(しま) (Hiroshima).
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: هِيرُوشِيمَا (hirušīmā) — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Armenian: Հիրոսիմա (Hirosima) — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Bulgarian: Хироши́ма (Hirošíma) — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Carpathian Rusyn: Гіроші́ма (Hirošíma) — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Chinese Cantonese: 廣島 /广岛 (gwong2 dou2) — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Chinese Mandarin: 廣島 /广岛 (Guǎngdǎo) — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Czech: Hirošima — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Dutch: Hiroshima — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Esperanto: Hiroŝimo — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Finnish: Hiroshima — a city in Honshu, Japan
- German: Hiroschima — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Greek: Χιροσίμα (Chirosíma) — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Hindi: हिरोशिमा (hirośimā) — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Hungarian: Hirosima — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Italian: Hiroshima — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Italian: Iroscima — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Japanese: 広島 — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Korean: 히로시마 (Hirosima) — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Latin: Hiroshima — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Maltese: Hiroshima — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Maltese: Ħiroxima — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Marathi: हिरोशिमा (hirośimā) — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Mongolian: Хирошима (Xirošima) — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Persian: هیروشیما (hirošimâ) — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Polish: Hiroszima — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Portuguese: Hiroxima — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Romanian: Hiroshima — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Russian: Хироси́ма (Xirosíma) — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Serbo-Croatian: Хироши́ма — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Serbo-Croatian: Hirošíma — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Tamil: ஹிரோஷிமா (hirōṣimā) — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Thai: ฮิโรชิมะ (hí-roo-chí-má) — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Turkish: Hiroşima — a city in Honshu, Japan
- Uyghur: خىروشىما (xiroshima) — a city in Honshu, Japan
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