CAPE HORN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cape Horn mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPE HORN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

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 Horn" is a part of...):

Chile; Republic of Chile (a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast)