Chernobyl
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See also: Chernóbyl
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Russian Черно́быль (Černóbylʹ).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tʃɜːˈnɒbəl/, /tʃɜːˈnəʊbəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɚˈnoʊbəl/
- Rhymes: -ɒbəl, -əʊbəl
Proper noun[edit]
Chernobyl
- A partially abandoned city and ghost town in northern Ukraine, known as the site of a nuclear disaster.
- 1991 July 26, Brad Knickerbocker, “Think Tank on the Efficient Energy Trail”, in Christian Science Monitor[1]:
- A couple of oil shocks, a Chernobyl meltdown, and a Gulf War later, his basic message - the need to emphasize efficiency and renewable resources over oil and nuclear power - is still a minority view, […]
- (by extension) The 1986 nuclear accident which resulted in the abandonment of the aforementioned city.
- After Chernobyl, very few nuclear power plants were built for years.
Alternative forms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
city in Ukraine
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Noun[edit]
Chernobyl (plural Chernobyls)
- (by extension) A major nuclear-energy accident.
- 1994 August, “Nuclear chaos”, in Popular Science, volume 245, number 2, page 54:
- Many secret cities were Chernobyls in slow motion.
- 1999 May 6, Terence Scully, “When cell phones kill our brain waves, we will worry less”, in The Record (Kitchener, Ont.):
- The effects of a Chernobyl disaster in my community would probably be barely noticeable.
- 2007 September 7, “Imagining a World Without Humans”, in NPR_TalkNation:
- So those would be a lot of Chernobyls that the ecosystem would have to deal with.
- 2010 March 10, Ben Garcia, “Many Kuwaitis yet to be convinced on nuke energy”, in Kuwait Times:
- It has to be handled properly with great accuracy and no room for mistakes, because if we do have like a Chernobyl catastrophe, God forbid, it could wipe out our entire people.
See also[edit]
Italian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Russian Черно́быль (Černóbylʹ).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Chernobyl ?
References[edit]
- ^ Chernobil in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Portuguese[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Chernobyl f
- Alternative spelling of Chernobil
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- English terms borrowed from Russian
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- English 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ɒbəl
- Rhymes:English/ɒbəl/3 syllables
- Rhymes:English/əʊbəl
- Rhymes:English/əʊbəl/3 syllables
- English lemmas
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- English uncountable nouns
- en:Ghost towns in Ukraine
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- Italian terms borrowed from Russian
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- Rhymes:Italian/ɛrnobil
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛrnobil/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Italian/il
- Rhymes:Italian/il/3 syllables
- Italian lemmas
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