Noun: Hiroshima hi'row-shi-mu or ,hi-ru'shee-mu [N. Amer], hi'ró-shi-mu or ,hi-ru'shee-mu [Brit]
- 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
Type of: city, metropolis, port, urban center [US], urban centre [Brit, Cdn]
Part of: Hondo [archaic], Honshu
Encyclopedia: Hiroshima, Japan