Cape meaning

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The definition of a cape is piece of land that sticks into the water.

An example of a cape is the piece of land just north of Nantucket Sound in Massachusetts.

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A cape is defined as a piece of clothing without any sleeves that's worn over the shoulders and attaches at the front of the neck.

An example of a cape is what Superman wears to help him fly.

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A sleeveless outer garment fastened at the throat and worn hanging over the shoulders.
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A brightly colored cloth used in maneuvering the bull in a bullfight; a capote or muleta.
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To maneuver (the bull) by means of a cape in a bullfight.
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A point or head of land projecting into a body of water.
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For names of actual capes, see the specific element of the names; for example, Hatteras, Cape; Good Hope, Cape of. Other geographic names beginning with Cape are entered under Cape; for example, Cape Town, South Africa; Cape York Peninsula.
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A sleeveless outer garment hanging over the back and shoulders and often fastening at the neck.
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A piece of land projecting into a body of water; promontory; headland.
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A point or head of land projecting into a body of water.
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(geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
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A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips.
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(nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.

The ship capes southwest by south.

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To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
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the Cape
  • Cape of Good Hope.
  • Cape of Good Hope Province.
  • Cape Cod.
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

the Cape

Origin of cape

  • Middle English cape partly variant of cope cope cope2 and partly from Anglo-Norman cape (from Medieval Latin cāpa) (variant of Late Latin cappa)
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Middle English cap from Old French from Old Provençal from Latin caput head kaput- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Middle French cap, from Latin caput (“head”).
    From Wiktionary
  • Old English capa, from Late Latin cappa (“cape”).
    From Wiktionary

Cape Sentence Examples

  • The length from Cape Teulada in the S.W.

  • c. wardi and the Cape G.

  • And the price was about the same as the tiny Cape Cod house the LeBlanc's owned in expensive Massachusetts.

  • We missed the Cape Cod train Friday morning, and so we came down to Provincetown in the steamer Longfellow.

  • A very refined modification of the Cape machine is described by A.

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