CAPE HATTERAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cape Hatteras mean? 

• CAPE HATTERAS (noun)
  The noun CAPE HATTERAS has 1 sense:

1. a promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina

  Familiarity information: CAPE HATTERAS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPE HATTERAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

frequent storms drive ships to their destruction on Cape Hatteras

Instance hypernyms:

cape; ness (a strip of land projecting into a body of water)

foreland; head; headland; promontory (a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea))

Holonyms ("Cape Hatteras" is a part of...):

N.C.; NC; North Carolina; Old North State; Tar Heel State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies)