English Dictionary

Hiroshima

/hɪ(ə)ˈɹɒʃɪmə/

name

A prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan. / The capital city of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. It was the target of the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945.

Hiroshima is a beautiful prefecture in southwestern Honshu.

意味（1）

A prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan.

意味（2）

The capital city of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. It was the target of the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945.

A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.

意味（3）

(figuratively) catastrophe.

2011 April, Michael Joseph Gross, “A Declaration of Cyber-War”, Vanity Fair:

意味（4）

The 1945 atomic bombing of the city of the same name.

VINCENT: Tens of thousands killed before sundown; nobody's killed people that fast since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.