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Chernobyl

Pronunciation: /tʃɜːˈnɒbəl/

The English word “Chernobyl” has 4 meanings listed here.

proper noun

  1. A partially abandoned city and ghost town in northern Ukraine, known as the site of a nuclear disaster.
  2. The 1986 nuclear accident which resulted in the abandonment of the aforementioned city.
  3. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the location where the accident occurred.

noun

  1. A major nuclear-energy accident.

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Черно́быль (Černóbylʹ). The place name is from Russian чернобыль (černobylʹ), meaning “mugwort” or “wormwood”. Doublet of Chornobyl, from the Ukrainian cognate.

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