Hiroshima

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Hiroshima

/hɪ(ə)ˈɹɒʃɪmə/ UK
/hɪ(ə)ɹəˈʃiːmə/ UK
/hɪˈɹoʊʃɪmə/ US
/hɪɹoʊˈʃiːmə/ US

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Borrowed from Japanese 広(ひろ)島(しま) (Hiroshima). Transliteration of Japanese ひろしま

proper noun

A prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan.
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.
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

figuratively A catastrophe. Stuxnet is the Hiroshima of cyber-war.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: higashi, nagasaki, radiation, fallout, ground-zero, a-bomb, atom-bomb, cataclysm, holocaust, annihilation, devastation, bombardment, tragedy, massacre, inferno, apocalypse

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name a city in Honshu, Japan

한국어	히로시마 Hirosima
日本語	広島
中文	廣島 /广岛 Guǎngdǎo
हिन्दी	हिरोशिमा hirośimā
Português	Hiroxima
Deutsch	Hiroschima
Italiano	Hiroshima, Iroscima
Ελληνικά	Χιροσίμα Chirosíma
Română	Hiroshima
Русский	Хироси́ма Xirosíma
العربية	هِيرُوشِيمَا hirušīmā

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@misc{hiroshima_2026,
  title = {Hiroshima},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hiroshima},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}