Hiroshima
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Hiroshima, after the bomb was dropped.
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /hɪ(ə)ˈɹɒʃɪmə/, /hɪ(ə)ɹəˈʃiːmə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /hɪˈɹoʊʃɪmə/, /hɪɹoʊˈʃiːmə/
Proper noun
Hiroshima
- A prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan.
- 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.
- 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.
Translations
a city in Honshu, Japan
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Noun
Hiroshima
- (figuratively) A catastrophe.
- 2011 April, Michael Joseph Gross, “A Declaration of Cyber-War”, in Vanity Fair:
- Stuxnet is the Hiroshima of cyber-war.
See also
- (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
German
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hiroshima n (proper noun, genitive Hiroshimas or (optionally with an article) Hiroshima)
Japanese
Romanization
Hiroshima
Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hiroshima f
Declension
Declension of Hiroshima
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Hiroshima |
| genitive | Hiroshimy |
| dative | Hiroshimie |
| accusative | Hiroshimę |
| instrumental | Hiroshimą |
| locative | Hiroshimie |
| vocative | Hiroshimo |
Further reading
- Hiroshima in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hiroshima f
- Alternative form of Hiroxima