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Tsar Bomba

Tsar Bomba proper noun: a 50-megaton thermonuclear bomb, detonated by the Soviet Union in October 1961. It was the biggest nuclear bomb ever exploded.

tsar bomba: a 50-megaton thermonuclear bomb, detonated by the Soviet Union in October 1961. It was the biggest...
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Proper noun

Tsar Bomba or the Tsar Bomba

  1. A 50-megaton thermonuclear bomb, detonated by the Soviet Union in October 1961. It was the biggest nuclear bomb ever exploded.

Origin of Tsar Bomba

Borrowed from Russian Царь-бо́мба (Carʹ-bómba, “emperor of bombs”).

Questions about Tsar Bomba

What does Tsar Bomba mean?
Tsar Bomba means a 50-megaton thermonuclear bomb, detonated by the Soviet Union in October 1961. It was the biggest nuclear bomb ever exploded.
What part of speech is Tsar Bomba?
Tsar Bomba is a proper noun.

Words near Tsar Bomba in the dictionary

  1. Tsao-yang
  2. Tsaochuang
  3. Tsaos
  4. Tsaoyang
  5. tsar
  6. Tsar Bomba
  7. tsara'at
  8. tsarate
  9. tsarates
  10. tsardom
  11. Tsardom of Bulgaria

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