chesapeake bay

1. 1.

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

   Broaderbay

   Part ofMarylandVirginiaAtlantic

Questions about chesapeake bay

What does chesapeake bay mean?

chesapeake bay means "a large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland; fed by Susquehanna River".

Is chesapeake bay a common word?

chesapeake bay is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.