HIROSHIMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hiroshima mean? 

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

1. a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIROSHIMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area

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)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

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

Hondo; Honshu (the central and largest of the four main islands of Japan; between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean; regarded as the Japanese mainland)

 Context examples 

The discovery of NPGL by Professor Kazuyoshi Ukena of Hiroshima University shows that hunger and energy consumption mechanisms are even more complex than we realized — and that NPGL plays a central role in what were thought to be well-understood processes.

(New Appetite Control Mechanism Found in Brain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)