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    CHESAPEAKE BAY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    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)

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