NUCLEAR WINTER
Dictionary entry overview: What does nuclear winter mean? • NUCLEAR WINTER (noun)
The noun NUCLEAR WINTER has 1 sense:
1. a long period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would follow a full-scale nuclear war; a layer of dust and smoke in the atmosphere would cover the earth and block the rays of the sun; most living organisms would perish
Familiarity information: NUCLEAR WINTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NUCLEAR WINTER (noun)
Meaning:
A long period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would follow a full-scale nuclear war; a layer of dust and smoke in the atmosphere would cover the earth and block the rays of the sun; most living organisms would perish
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("nuclear winter" is a kind of...):
cataclysm; catastrophe (a sudden violent change in the earth's surface)
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