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chersonese|ˈkɜːsəˌniːs|
Also 7 chersoness(e, 8–9 in Lat. form chersonesus.
[ad. L. chersonēsus, a. Gr. χερσόνησος peninsula, f. χέρσος dry land + νῆσος island; spec. the Thracian peninsula west of the Hellespont.]
A peninsula. (Now mostly poetic or rhetorical.)
1601Holland Pliny II. 405 Within the Chersonese of the Rhodians. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. i, Hayle's vaster mouth doth make A chersonese thereof. 1635R. N. tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. ii. 176 A Byland or Chersonesse. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 392 Thence to Agra and Lahor of great Mogul, Down to the golden Chersonese. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 7) I. 408 This little Chersonese, called The Land's End. 1850W. Irving Mahomet I. 13 That great chersonese or peninsula..known by the name of Arabia. |