CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cape of Good Hope mean? 

• CAPE OF GOOD HOPE (noun)
  The noun CAPE OF GOOD HOPE has 2 senses:

1. a point of land in southwestern South Africa (south of Cape Town)

2. a province of western South Africa

  Familiarity information: CAPE OF GOOD HOPE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPE OF GOOD HOPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A point of land in southwestern South Africa (south of Cape Town)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A province of western South Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

 Context examples 

We sailed with a fair wind to the Cape of Good Hope, where we staid only to take in fresh water.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

However, I did then believe us to be about 10 degrees southward of the Cape of Good Hope, or about 45 degrees southern latitude, as I gathered from some general words I overheard among them, being I supposed to the south-east in their intended voyage to Madagascar.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But meeting a trade-wind two days after I came on board him, we sailed southward a long time, and coasting New Holland, kept our course west-south-west, and then south-south-west, till we doubled the Cape of Good Hope.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

We had a very prosperous gale, till we arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, where we landed for fresh water; but discovering a leak, we unshipped our goods and wintered there; for the captain falling sick of an ague, we could not leave the Cape till the end of March.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)