CAPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cape mean? 

• CAPE (noun)
  The noun CAPE has 2 senses:

1. a strip of land projecting into a body of water

2. a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter

  Familiarity information: CAPE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A strip of land projecting into a body of water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

cape; ness

Hypernyms ("cape" is a kind of...):

dry land; earth; ground; land; solid ground; terra firma (the solid part of the earth's surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cape"):

spit; tongue (a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea)

Instance hyponyms:

Lindesnes; Naze (a cape at the southern tip of Norway)

Cape Passero; Passero Cape (a cape that forms the southeastern corner of the island of Sicily)

Cape of Good Hope (a point of land in southwestern South Africa (south of Cape Town))

Cape May (a cape of southeast New Jersey extending into the Atlantic Ocean)

Cape Fear (a cape in southeastern North Carolina extending into the Atlantic Ocean)

Cape Flattery (a cape of northwestern Washington)

Cape Froward (a cape on the Strait of Magellan in southern Chile; the most southern point on the mainland of South America)

Cape Hatteras (a promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina)

Cape Sable (a cape at the southwest tip of Florida; the southernmost part of the United States mainland)

Cape Trafalgar (a small cape in southwestern Spain)

Cape York (the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait; the northernmost point of the Australian mainland)

Hoek van Holland; Hook of Holland (a cape on the southwestern coast of the Netherlands near Rotterdam)

Skagens Odde; Skaw (a cape on the northernmost tip of Jutland between the Skagerrak and the Kattegatt)

Cape Horn (a rocky headland belonging to Chile at the southernmost tip of South America (south of Tierra del Fuego))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cape; mantle

Hypernyms ("cape" is a kind of...):

cloak (a loose outer garment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cape"):

mantelet; mantilla (short cape worn by women)

pelisse (a sleeveless cape that is lined or trimmed with fur)

tippet (a woman's fur shoulder cape with hanging ends; often consisting of the whole fur of a fox or marten)

chlamys (a short mantle or cape fastened at the shoulder; worn by men in ancient Greece)

 Context examples 

On the left the low-lying land stretched in a dim haze, rising here and there into a darker blur which marked the higher capes and headlands.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It chanced, however, that as we turned into the Pavilion Grounds, we met a magnificent team of four coal-black horses, driven by a rough-looking, middle-aged fellow in an old weather-stained cape.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Shall I meet you again, after having traversed immense seas, and returned by the most southern cape of Africa or America?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

To the north of that, again, there comes another cape—Cape of the Woods, as it was marked upon the chart—buried in tall green pines, which descended to the margin of the sea.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The sevengill and great white are both ordinarily apex predators and seek some of the same food, such as cape fur seals, but great whites can also prey directly on sevengills.

(Study indicates as great white shark disappears, living fossil moves in, Wikinews)

"Then I take it for granted," observed Sir Walter, "that his face is about as orange as the cuffs and capes of my livery."

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And then his hat sat so well, and the innumerable capes of his greatcoat looked so becomingly important!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I found that I could see the black band upon Sir John’s white hat, then that I could count the folds of his cape; finally, that I could see the pretty features of his wife as she looked back at us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A bluff cape to the north and a long spit to the south marked the mouth of the noble river, with a low-lying island of silted sand in the centre, all shrouded and curtained by the spume of the breakers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A gentleman in a white coachman’s cape—a Corinthian, as we would call him in those days—was driving, and half a dozen of his fellows, laughing and shouting, were on the top behind him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)