Hiroshima

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From Japanese 広(ひろ)島(しま) (Hiroshima).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɪ(ə)ˈɹɒʃɪmə/, /hɪ(ə)ɹəˈʃiːmə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /hɪˈɹoʊʃɪmə/, /hɪɹoʊˈʃiːmə/

Hiroshima

1. A prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan.
2. The capital city of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. It was the target of the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945.
   • 1945 August 6, Harry S. Truman, 0:18 from the start, in VT2008-9-2 President Truman Announces Bombing of Hiroshima‎, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 23630, archived from the original on 02 November 2021:

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

3. The 1945 atomic bombing of the city.
   • 2004, Stuart Beattie, Collateral, DreamWorks Pictures:

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

The bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was the uranium-fired Little Boy. Three days later, Nagasaki was nuked. These remain, as of 2024, the only time nuclear bombs have actually been fired off in anger.

Hiroshima

1. (figuratively) A catastrophe.
   • 2011 April, Michael Joseph Gross, “A Declaration of Cyber-War”, in Vanity Fair:

     Stuxnet is the Hiroshima of cyber-war.

• (prefectures of Japan) Japan; Aichi, Akita, Aomori, Chiba, Ehime, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Gifu, Gunma, Hiroshima, Hokkaidō, Hyōgo, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Iwate, Kagawa, Kagoshima, Kanagawa, Kōchi, Kumamoto, Kyoto, Mie, Miyagi, Miyazaki, Nagano, Nagasaki, Nara, Niigata, Ōita, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka, Saga, Saitama, Shiga, Shimane, Shizuoka, Tochigi, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tottori, Toyama, Wakayama, Yamagata, Yamaguchi, Yamanashi

• Hiroschima

• IPA^(key): /hiˈʁɔʃima/, (rare) /hiʁoˈʃiːma/

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Hiroshima n (proper noun, genitive Hiroshimas or (optionally with an article) Hiroshima)

1. Hiroshima (a city in Japan)

Hiroshima

1. Rōmaji transcription of ひろしま

Unadapted borrowing from English Hiroshima.

• IPA^(key): /xi.rɔˈɕi.ma/, /xi.rɔˈʂi.ma/
• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: Hi‧ro‧shi‧ma

Hiroshima f (related adjective hiroshimski)

1. Alternative spelling of Hiroszima

• Hiroshima in PWN's encyclopedia

Hiroshima f

1. Alternative form of Hiroxima