Synonyms for CHERNOBYL
tʃɜrˈnoʊ bəl, tʃɛr-cher·nobyl

Princeton's WordNet

1. Chernobylnoun

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

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1. • Ukraine
   • City

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1. List of paraphrases for "chernobyl":

   chornobyl, chernobyl-related

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1. Geraldo Abreu:

   Fundao is the Chernobyl of the mining industry. There is a before and there is an after.

2. Russell Clark:

   It was like I have seen the Chernobyl mini-series and everything was just blanketed in ash, it was quite an overwhelming feeling, you know ? There was a helicopter on the island that had obviously been there at the time, with its rotor blades off it.

3. Jim Smith:

   When humans are removed, nature flourishes - even in the wake of the world's worst nuclear accident, it's very likely that wildlife numbers at Chernobyl are now much higher than they were before the accident.

4. James Acton:

   Fukushima is a better analogy than Chernobyl, in this event, evacuations may be required for tens of kilometers around the plant, especially downwind. In the middle of a war those would be exceptionally dangerous.

5. Svetlana Alexievich:

   Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of a great empire, but I don't just record a dry history of events and facts, I'm writing a history of human feelings.