Chēr'so-nēse, n.

n. [Gr. χερσόνησος; χέρσος, land, or uncultivated land, and νῆσος, an isle.] A peninsula; a tract of land of any indefinite extent, which is 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.