CHERNOBYL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chernobyl mean? 

• CHERNOBYL (noun)
  The noun CHERNOBYL has 1 sense:

1. a city in north central Ukraine; site of a major disaster at a nuclear power plant (26 April 1986)

  Familiarity information: CHERNOBYL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHERNOBYL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in north central Ukraine; site of a major disaster at a nuclear power plant (26 April 1986)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Chernobyl" is a part of...):

Ukraine; Ukrayina (a republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century)