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Chersonese
is always a great word to know.
So is lollapalooza. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| chersonese (ˈkɜːsəˌniːs) | |
| —n | |
| a. a poetic or rhetorical word for peninsula | |
| b. (capital when part of a name): Thracian Chersonese | |
| [C17: from Latin, from Greek khersonēsos, from khersos dry (land) + nēsos island] | |
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Word Origin & History
Chersonese
from Gk. khersonesos "peninsula," from khersos "dry land" + nesos "island."
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