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Tjernobyl

Tjernobyl proper noun: chernobyl (a city in Ukraine).

Proper noun

Tjernobyl

  1. (non-native speakers' English) Chernobyl (a city in Ukraine).
    • OK, living in the reinder belt of Scandinavia, the weapon tests hasn't poisoned us that much and the plutonium hasn't been that much of a problem, but jee, you shure has dug you head into the ground like a ostridge. Have you never heard of a fishy place called Tjernobyl. That bastard is still...1997 July 14, Lars Magnusson, “Global Worries (was: global warming)”, in talk.environment (Usenet), retrieved 03 Jun 2022
    • How many new things have we found (virus or bacteria doesn't matter) and still more are coming, AIDS? do you belive^([sic]) it has been there always? do you remember Tjernobyl? nothing to do with virus or bacteria, but what happened? I would say humans stupidity (money again) give them some not so...1998 July 6, Mare, “Unmentioned abuse”, in alt.talk.bestiality (Usenet), retrieved 03 Jun 2022

Examples of Tjernobyl in a sentence

  • Have you never heard of a fishy place called Tjernobyl.1997 July 14, Lars Magnusson, “Global Worries (was: global warming)”, in talk.environment (Usenet), retrieved 03 Jun 2022:
  • I have a couple of questions regarding evoultionary pace, ionizing radiation and Tjernobyl.2003 May 9, Torbjörn Svensson Diaz, “Evolutionar Leap in the Tjernobyl Area”, in sci.bio.evolution (Usenet), retrieved 03 Jun 2022:

Origin of Tjernobyl

Borrowed from Danish Tjernobyl or Swedish Tjernobyl.

Questions about Tjernobyl

What does Tjernobyl mean?
Tjernobyl means chernobyl (a city in Ukraine).
How do you use Tjernobyl in a sentence?
Have you never heard of a fishy place called Tjernobyl.
What part of speech is Tjernobyl?
Tjernobyl is a proper noun.

Words near Tjernobyl in the dictionary

  1. tjantings
  2. Tjapaltjarri
  3. tjaty
  4. Tjeker
  5. Tjekker
  6. Tjernobyl
  7. tjet
  8. tjets
  9. TJI
  10. tjiki
  11. Tjilatjap

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