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Definitions for Hiroshima
ˌhɪər oʊˈʃi mə, hɪˈroʊ ʃə məhi·roshi·ma

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Hiroshimanoun

    a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area

Wiktionary

  1. Hiroshimanoun

    A city in Honshu, Japan, devastated by the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945.

  2. Hiroshimanoun

    catastrophe.

Wikipedia

  1. Hiroshima

    Hiroshima (広島市, Hiroshima-shi, , also UK: , US: , Japanese: [çiɾoɕima]) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. As of June 1, 2019, the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has been the city's mayor since April 2011. Hiroshima was founded in 1589 as a castle town on the Ōta River delta. Following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Hiroshima rapidly transformed into a major urban center and industrial hub. In 1889, Hiroshima officially gained city status. The city was a center of military activities during the imperial era, playing significant roles such as in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the two world wars. Hiroshima was the first military target of a nuclear weapon in human history. This occurred on August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on the city. Most of Hiroshima was destroyed, and by the end of the year between 90,000 and 166,000 had died as a result of the blast and its effects. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) serves as a memorial of the bombing. Since being rebuilt after the war, Hiroshima has become the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu.

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  1. hiroshima

    Hiroshima is a city in Japan that is internationally known for being the target of the first atomic bomb attack in world history during World War II on August 6, 1945, by the United States. Located on the western part of the main island, it is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture. Today, the city has recovered and is a significant urban center and the location of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, which commemorates the tragic event.

Wikidata

  1. Hiroshima

    Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It is best known as the first city in history to be targeted by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, near the end of World War II. Its name 広島 means "Wide Island". Hiroshima gained city status on April 1, 1889. On April 1, 1980, Hiroshima became a designated city. Kazumi Matsui has been the city's mayor since April 2011.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Hiroshima in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Hiroshima in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Hiroshima in a Sentence

  1. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe:

    We must not have the tragic experience of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 71 years ago repeat itself, it is the responsibility of those of us who live in the present to keep on working without cease toward that aim.

  2. Jeff Kingston:

    The Hiroshima Peace Museum is the most visited site for school excursions and every year at this time the media is filled with stories about the nightmarish suffering of the hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) who eloquently recount what they endured.

  3. Al Gore:

    We’re still putting 162 million tons [of greenhouse gas] into it every single day and the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth, that’s what’s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees.

  4. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe:

    The first-ever live broadcast of an Olympics. As the entire world watched, the final runner entered the National Stadium, Olympic torch in hand, it was a 19-year-old youth from Hiroshima, born on the day the atomic bomb fell, and his dynamic running showed that our nation had fully recovered from being flattened by bombings and, full of confidence and pride, proclaimed to the world Japan was embarking on an era of rapid growth.

  5. Cheng Lijing:

    The amount of heat we have put in the worlds oceans in the past 25 years equals to 3.6 billion Hiroshima atom-bomb explosions, this measured ocean warming is irrefutable and is further proof of global warming. There are no reasonable alternatives aside from the human emissions of heat trapping gases to explain this heating.

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