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Katrina en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • (London) audio
  • /kəˈtɹi.nə/ (General-American)
  • /kəˈtɹiː.nə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Meanings

  1. A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Catherine; variant form Katrine.
  2. The 11th tropical storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which caused catastrophic damage to Louisiana, Mississippi and parts of Alabama.
    • “It’s disaster capitalism,” the Aleph said. “All the profiteering that went down post-Katrina. It was in 2005. You’re probably too young to remember that hurricane.” 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 250:
  3. (US, metonymically) A large-scale disaster, especially one with negative political consequences.
    • Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Katrina? 2020 March 8, Chris Cillizza, “Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Katrina?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2020: