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Katrina

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//kəˈtɹiː.nə//
  • United States//kəˈtɹi.nə//

A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Catherine; variant form Katrine.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Catherine; variant form Katrine.

  2. 2

    The 11th tropical storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which caused catastrophic damage to Louisiana, Mississippi and parts of Alabama.

    “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.”

  3. 3

    A large-scale disaster, especially one with negative political consequences.

    Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Katrina?

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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