Hiroshima in Latin

Hiroshima in Latin

What does "Hiroshima" mean?

1. name A prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan.
2. name 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."
3. name The 1945 atomic bombing of the city.
   "VINCENT: Tens of thousands killed before sundown; nobody's killed people that fast since Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
4. noun A catastrophe.
   "Stuxnet is the Hiroshima of cyber-war."

Hiroshima in a sentence

• A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.
• This slab is where the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago were put together. It’s the assembly point for the dawning of the atomic age.
• VINCENT: Tens of thousands killed before sundown; nobody's killed people that fast since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• Stuxnet is the Hiroshima of cyber-war.

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