Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Chersonese

Chersonese (kẽr"so*nēs) , noun

[Greek cherso`nhsos; che`rsos land + nh`sos island.]

A peninsula; a tract of land nearly surrounded by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland; the Tauric Chersonese, or Crimea.