NUCLEAR WINTER

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 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)

Sense 1

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)