Chersonese Definition

kûrsə-nēz, -nēs
noun
A peninsula.
Webster's New World

(now chiefly poetic or rhetorical) A peninsula.

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Origin of Chersonese

  • From Latin Chersonēsus, from Ancient Greek χερσόνησος (khersonēsos) (“peninsula”, originally specifically the Gallipoli peninsula), from χέρσος (khersos, “dry land”) + νῆσος (nēsos, “island”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin chersonēsus from Greek khersonēsos khersos dry land nēsos island snā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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