Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northern Ukraine near the border of Belarus. It was evacuated and remains uninhabited as a result of a major nuclear power plant accident nearby on April 26, 1986.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun An abandoned city in northern
Ukraine , known as the site of anuclear accident . - noun by extension A major nuclear-energy accident.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a city in north central Ukraine; site of a major disaster at a nuclear power plant (26 April 1986)
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Chernobyl.
Examples
-
Sergei Supinsky/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images REMEMBERING CHERNOBYL: Chernobyl victims attended a commemoration ceremony in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday.
-
TOKYO MarketWatch - There are some good reasons to sell Japanese stocks right now, but seeing the word "Chernobyl" in a headline isn't one of them.
-
There are some good reasons to sell Japanese stocks right now, but seeing the word 'Chernobyl' in a...
-
Within days, the name 'Chernobyl' had become a byword across the world for Soviet bungling -- and callousness, since Moscow, obsessed by secrecy, did not come clean about the disaster for nearly 36 hours.
Reuters: Top News 2011
-
Within days, the name 'Chernobyl' had become a byword across the world for Soviet bungling -- and callousness, since Moscow, obsessed by secrecy, did not come clean about the disaster for nearly 36 hours.
Reuters: Top News 2011
-
Sorry my knowledge of Chernobyl is admittedly limited unless you count a 1st person shooter game called Stalker.
Think Progress » After warmest January in history, Vancouver airlifts in snow for Winter Olympics. 2010
-
The amount of uranium needed to cause something like Chernobyl is huge, like 500 kilos.
-
The amount of uranium needed to cause something like Chernobyl is huge, like 500 kilos.
-
Peter Boonstra and Marcel van Brakel (NL) are currently in Chernobyl, where they upload movies in an internet cafe.
-
Elena, in chapter 2 of Ghost Town, repeats the story that "Chernobyl is the name of a grass, wormwood (absinth)", which has been widely noted because of the nice scary connection with a couple of verses in Revelations:
Archive 2004-05-01 Ray Girvan 2004
ruzuzu commented on the word Chernobyl
"city in Ukraine (Ukr. Chornobyl), from Rus. chernobylnik "mugwort." Site of 1986 nuclear disaster."
--Online Etymology Dictionary (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Chernobyl&allowed_in_frame=0)
April 11, 2012