Chesapeake

From Chesepiook, from Algonquin chesepiooc.

It was widely believed for a long time that "Chesapeake" means something like "Great Shellfish Bay."[1] However, according to Blair Rudes, linguist at the University of North Carolina, the name might actually mean something like "Great Water," or it might have been simply the name of a village at the bay's mouth.[2]

Chesapeake (plural Chesapeakes)

1. (historical) Any member of a Native American tribe that once inhabited the area now known as South Hampton Roads in Virginia, United States.
2. Ellipsis of Chesapeake Bay.

• (Native American): Chesepian

• Chesapeake Bay
• Chesapeake Peninsula

Chesapeake

1. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An extinct town in Warren County, Indiana.
   2. An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Missouri.
   3. A village in Lawrence County, Ohio.
   4. An independent city in south-east Virginia.
   5. An unincorporated community in Northampton County, Virginia.
   6. A town in Kanawha County, West Virginia.