"Chernobyl" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /tʃɜːˈnɒbəl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /tʃɜːˈnəʊbəl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /t͡ʃɚˈnoʊbəl/ [General-American]
Rhymes: -ɒbəl, -əʊbəl Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Черно́быль (Černóbylʹ). Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|en|ru|Черно́быль|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Russian Черно́быль (Černóbylʹ), {{bor+|en|ru|Черно́быль}} Borrowed from Russian Черно́быль (Černóbylʹ) Head templates: {{en-prop}} Chernobyl
  1. A partially abandoned city and ghost town in northern Ukraine, known as the site of a nuclear disaster. Categories (place): Ghost towns in Ukraine, Places in Ukraine Translations (city in Ukraine): تْشِيرْنُوبِيل (tširnūbil) [masculine] (Arabic), Չեռնոբիլ (Čʻeṙnobil) (Armenian), Txernobyl (Basque), Чарно́быль (Čarnóbylʹ) [masculine] (Belarusian), চেরনোবিল (cernōbil) (Bengali), Черно́бил (Černóbil) [masculine] (Bulgarian), Txernòbil (Catalan), 切爾諾貝利 (Chinese Mandarin), 切尔诺贝利 (Qiè'ěrnuòbèilì) (Chinese Mandarin), Çornobıl (Crimean Tatar), Černobyl [masculine] (Czech), Tjernobyl (Danish), Ĉernobilo (Esperanto), Tšornobõl (Estonian), Tšernobyl (Finnish), Tchernobyl [masculine] (French), ჩერნობილი (černobili) (Georgian), Tschernobyl [neuter] (German), Tschornobyl [neuter] (German), Τσερνόμπιλ (Tsernómpil) [neuter] (Greek), צ׳רנוביל (Hebrew), चेरनोबिल (cernobil) (Hindi), Csernobil (Hungarian), Černobyl' [masculine] (Italian), チョルノーブィリ (Chorunōbuiri) (Japanese), チェルノブイリ (Cherunobuiri) (Japanese), 체르노빌 (Chereunobil) (Korean), Černobylis (Lithuanian), Че́рнобил (Čérnobil) [masculine] (Macedonian), चेरनोबिल (cernobil) (Marathi), Tsjernobyl (Norwegian), Tsjernobyl (Norwegian Nynorsk), Czarnobyl [masculine] (Polish), Chernobyl [masculine] (Portuguese), Chernobil [masculine] (Portuguese), Tchernóbil (Portuguese), Черно́быль (Černóbylʹ) [masculine] (Russian), Černuobīlis (Samogitian), Чернобиљ [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), Чернобил [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), Černobilj [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), Černobil [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), Černobyľ [masculine] (Slovak), Černobil [masculine] (Slovene), Chernóbyl [masculine] (Spanish), Chernóbil (Spanish), Tjernobyl (Swedish), Çernobil (Turkish), Чорно́биль (Čornóbylʹ) [masculine] (Ukrainian), چېرنوبىل (chërnobil) (Uyghur), טשערנאָבל (tshernobl) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-Chernobyl-en-name-l66yyBzH Disambiguation of 'city in Ukraine': 74 26
  2. (by extension) The 1986 nuclear accident which resulted in the abandonment of the aforementioned city. Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-Chernobyl-en-name-K-9RlL5p Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 64 15 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 18 66 16
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Chornobyl Derived forms: Chernobylian, chernobylite, Chernobylite, Chernobyl syndrome

Noun

IPA: /tʃɜːˈnɒbəl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /tʃɜːˈnəʊbəl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /t͡ʃɚˈnoʊbəl/ [General-American] Forms: Chernobyls [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒbəl, -əʊbəl Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Черно́быль (Černóbylʹ). Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|en|ru|Черно́быль|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Russian Черно́быль (Černóbylʹ), {{bor+|en|ru|Черно́быль}} Borrowed from Russian Черно́быль (Černóbylʹ) Head templates: {{en-noun}} Chernobyl (plural Chernobyls)
  1. (by extension) A major nuclear-energy accident. Tags: broadly Categories (topical): Historical events Related terms: Bhopal, Fukushima, Hiroshima
    Sense id: en-Chernobyl-en-noun-L-VKFtej Disambiguation of Historical events: 18 11 71

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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