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Katrina
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Katrīna
English
+ (given name)
Pronunciation
en /kəˈtɹiː.nə/ RP
en /kəˈtɹi.nə/ GA
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-Katrina.wav London
en iːnə
Proper noun
en female Ancient Greek Catherine Katrine.
The 11th tropical storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which caused catastrophic damage to Louisiana, Mississippi and parts of Alabama.
en 2021 w:Ruth Ozeki w:The Book of Form and Emptiness Canongate Books (2022) 250 “It’s disaster capitalism,” the Aleph said. “All the profiteering that went down post-Katrina. It was in 2005. You’re probably too young to remember that hurricane.”
en US metonym A large-scale disaster, especially one with negative political consequences.
en 2020-03-08 Chris Cillizza Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Katrina? w:CNN https://web.archive.org/web/20200309004000/https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/08/politics/2020-election-week-ahead/index.html 2020-03-09 Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Katrina?
Further reading
Hurricane Katrina
Faroese
Proper noun
fo proper noun f
fo female
Usage notes
f Katrinuson Katrinudóttir
Declension
Katrina Katrinu Katrinu Katrinu
Finnish
Proper noun
fi proper noun form
fi Katri ess s
Anagrams
fi aaiknrt kitaran narikat ratikan
Old Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
zlw-ocs female
Declension
f
Further reading
+
Swedish
Etymology
sv Katarina.
Pronunciation
sv /ka²triːna/
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Katrina.wav
Proper noun
c
sv female
Anagrams
sv aaiknrt tikarna