CHESAPEAKE BAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chesapeake Bay mean? 

• CHESAPEAKE BAY (noun)
  The noun CHESAPEAKE BAY has 1 sense:

1. a large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland; fed by Susquehanna River

  Familiarity information: CHESAPEAKE BAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHESAPEAKE BAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland; fed by Susquehanna River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

bay; embayment (an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf)

Holonyms ("Chesapeake Bay" is a part of...):

Free State; Maryland; MD; Md.; Old Line State (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)

Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)

 Context examples 

The Chesapeake Bay Retriever is a powerful, muscular retriever with a slightly wavy, rather short coat.

(Chesapeake Bay Retriever, NCI Thesaurus)