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Chernobyl en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /tʃɜːˈnɒbəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /t͡ʃɚˈnoʊbəl/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /tʃɜːˈnəʊbəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)

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.

Meanings

1. (broadly) A major nuclear-energy accident.
   • So those would be a lot of Chernobyls that the ecosystem would have to deal with. 2007 September 7, “Imagining a World Without Humans”, in NPR_TalkNation:
   • The effects of a Chernobyl disaster in my community would probably be barely noticeable. 1999 May 6, Terence Scully, “When cell phones kill our brain waves, we will worry less”, in The Record (Kitchener, Ont.):
   • Many secret cities were Chernobyls in slow motion. 1994 August, “Nuclear chaos”, in Popular Science, volume 245, number 2, page 54:
   • 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. 2010 March 10, Ben Garcia, “Many Kuwaitis yet to be convinced on nuke energy”, in Kuwait Times:

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Relateds

Hiroshima · Fukushima · Bhopal

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Chernobyl en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• /tʃɜːˈnɒbəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /t͡ʃɚˈnoʊbəl/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /tʃɜːˈnəʊbəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)

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.

Meanings

1. A partially abandoned city and ghost town in northern Ukraine, known as the site of a nuclear disaster.
   • 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,[…] 1991 July 26, Brad Knickerbocker, “Think Tank on the Efficient Energy Trail”, in Christian Science Monitor:
2. (broadly) The 1986 nuclear accident which resulted in the abandonment of the aforementioned city.
   • After Chernobyl, very few nuclear power plants were built for years.
3. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the location where the accident occurred.
   • Although it no longer produces electricity, many people still work at Chernobyl decommissioning the plant.

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Deriveds

Chernobylite · Chernobylic · chernobylite · Chernobyl syndrome · Chernobylian

Translations (56)

de Tschornobyl (city in Ukraine) · pt Chernobyl (city in Ukraine) · es Chernóbyl (city in Ukraine) · et Tšornobõl (city in Ukraine) · it Černobyl' (city in Ukraine) · pt Chernobil (city in Ukraine) · cs Černobyl (city in Ukraine) · mk Че́рнобил (city in Ukraine) · sh Černobilj (city in Ukraine) · es Chernóbil (city in Ukraine) · pl Czarnobyl (city in Ukraine) · sh Чернобиљ (city in Ukraine) · pt Tchernóbil (city in Ukraine) · zle-ort Чорнобыль (city in Ukraine) · no Tsjernobyl (city in Ukraine) · mr चेरनोबिल (city in Ukraine) · sh Чернобил (city in Ukraine) · tt Чирнүбел (city in Ukraine) · nn Tsjernobyl (city in Ukraine) · fr Tchernobyl (city in Ukraine) · el Τσερνόμπιλ (city in Ukraine) · lt Černobylis (city in Ukraine) · cmn 切爾諾貝利 /切尔诺贝利 (city in Ukraine) · it Cernobil (city in Ukraine) · it Čornobyl' (city in Ukraine) · hi चेरनोबिल (city in Ukraine) · ja チェルノブイリ (city in Ukraine) · ja チョルノーブィリ (city in Ukraine) · sh Černobil (city in Ukraine) · sv Tjernobyl (city in Ukraine) · ug چېرنوبىل (city in Ukraine) · ar تْشِيرْنُوبِيل (city in Ukraine) · yi טשערנאָבל (city in Ukraine) · da Tjernobyl (city in Ukraine) · eo Ĉernobilo (city in Ukraine) · crh Çornobıl (city in Ukraine) · be Чарно́быль (city in Ukraine) · ru Черно́быль (city in Ukraine) · tr Çernobil (city in Ukraine) · sl Černobil (city in Ukraine) · tt Каранәремле (city in Ukraine) · uk Чорно́биль (city in Ukraine) · fi Tšernobyl (city in Ukraine) · bg Черно́бил (city in Ukraine) · hu Csernobil (city in Ukraine) · eu Txernobyl (city in Ukraine) · de Tschernobyl (city in Ukraine) · ko 체르노빌 (city in Ukraine) · sgs Černuobīlis (city in Ukraine) · bn চেরনোবিল (city in Ukraine) · sk Černobyľ (city in Ukraine) · ka ჩერნობილი (city in Ukraine) · he צ׳רנוביל (city in Ukraine) · ca Txernòbil (city in Ukraine) · la Czernobela (city in Ukraine) · hy Չեռնոբիլ (city in Ukraine)

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