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Katrina

/kəˈtɹiː.nə/US/kəˈtɹi.nə/

Katrina proper noun: a female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Catherine; variant form Katrine.

Proper noun

Katrina

  1. A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Catherine; variant form Katrine.
  2. The 11th tropical storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which caused catastrophic damage to Louisiana, Mississippi and parts of Alabama.
    • “It’s disaster capitalism,” the Aleph said. “All the profiteering that went down post-Katrina. It was in 2005. You’re probably too young to remember that hurricane.”2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 250
  3. (US, metonymically) A large-scale disaster, especially one with negative political consequences.
    • Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Katrina?2020 March 8, Chris Cillizza, “Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Katrina?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2020

Questions about Katrina

What does Katrina mean?
Katrina means a female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Catherine; variant form Katrine.
What part of speech is Katrina?
Katrina is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Katrina?
Katrina is pronounced /kəˈtɹiː.nə/ (UK).

Words near Katrina in the dictionary

  1. Katriese
  2. katrillion
  3. katrillionaire
  4. katrillionaires
  5. katrillions
  6. Katrina
  7. Katrine
  8. Katrineholm
  9. Katrinka
  10. Katryna
  11. kats

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