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CAPE KENNEDY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Cape Kennedy mean?
• CAPE KENNEDY (noun)
The noun CAPE KENNEDY has 1 sense:
1. a sandy promontory (formerly Cape Kennedy) extending into the Atlantic Ocean from a barrier island off the eastern coast of Florida; the site of a NASA center for spaceflight
Familiarity information: CAPE KENNEDY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sandy promontory (formerly Cape Kennedy) extending into the Atlantic Ocean from a barrier island off the eastern coast of Florida; the site of a NASA center for spaceflight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
Cape Canaveral; Cape Kennedy
Instance hypernyms:
foreland; head; headland; promontory (a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea))
Holonyms ("Cape Kennedy" is a part of...):
Everglade State; FL; Fla.; Florida; Sunshine State (a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. In Spanish, Florida means Flowery)
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