Associations to the word «Hiroshima»

Wiktionary

HIROSHIMA, proper noun. A city in Honshu, Japan, devastated by the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945.
HIROSHIMA, proper noun. (figuratively) catastrophe.

Dictionary definition

HIROSHIMA, noun. 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.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca