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CHERNOBYL
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I. (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)