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Chernobylian en · ADJ

Etymology

From Chernobyl + -ian.

Meanings

1. (rare) Relating to or resembling the city of Chernobyl or the 1986 nuclear accident that occurred there.
   • Or, to make the thought experiment somewhat more realistic, we might envision a future Chernobylian mishap in some European or Asian setting (a far from incredible scenario), and think about the form such an evacuation might take. 1991, Wilbur Zelinsky, Leszek A. Kosiński, The Emergency Evacuation of Cities: A Cross-national Historical and Geographical Study, Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 293:

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