Chesapeake
pronunciation
How to pronounce Chesapeake in British English:
UK [ˈtʃesəpi:k]
How to pronounce Chesapeake in American English:
US [ˈtʃɛsəˌpik]
Word Origin
- Chesapeake
- from an Algonquian language, perhaps literally "great shellfish bay." Early spellings include Chesepiooc and Chesupioc.
Example
- 1. Chesapeake sent a crew to check the water wellhead .
- 2. The joint venture just announced with chesapeake is very different .
- 3. The stock sale follows chesapeake 's sale of $ 1.7 billion worth of preferred stock last month .
- 4. The agreement between total and chesapeake looks to have achieved this .
- 5. Eight large-scale oyster farms could clean a ton of nitrogen from the chesapeake .