English Explanatory Dictionary

cape

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
noun
  1. A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders.
  2. A superhero.
verb
  1. To incite or attract (a bull) to charge a certain direction, by waving a cape.
  2. To head or point; to keep a course.
  3. To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
  4. To defend or praise, especially that which is unworthy.
  5. To cover (as) with or like a cape.
name
  1. A surname.
name
  1. Ellipsis of Cape of Good Hope.
  2. Ellipsis of Cape Province: a former province of South Africa, split into three in 1994.
  3. Ellipsis of Cape Cod.
  4. Ellipsis of Cape Colony.
  5. Ellipsis of Cape Canaveral: a peninsula in Florida, United States, where the major U.S. spaceflight complex is located.
noun
  1. Acronym of convective available potential energy.
  2. Acronym of cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio.
name
  1. Acronym of Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries.

Pronunciation

kāp /keɪp/ en-us-cape.ogg

Word forms

cape capes caping caped the Cape

Etymology

From Middle English cape, gappe, cap, from Old French cap (“cape, headland”), from Latin caput (“head”). Doublet of capo, caput, chef, and chief, and distantly with head and Howth. For sense development, compare English ness (“a promontory point, cape”) from a root related to nose, Bulgarian нос (nos) (the same PIE root). Also compare coast (<< Latin costa).

Synonyms

chersonese ness peninsula point

Related words

cloak

Derived words

Cape Ann Cape Breton Cape Bridgewater Cape Clear Island Cape Coast Cape Cod Cape Comorin Cape D'Aguilar Cape Elizabeth Cape Filchner Cape Flattery Cape fox Cape Girardeau Cape Hatteras Cape ivy Cape Kennedy Cape May Cape Neddick Cape of Good Hope Cape Otway Cape Penck Cape Peninsula Cape Point cape-pondweed Cape Prince of Wales Cape Ray Cape Schanck cape seahorse Capesize capesized Cape Tribulation Cape Verde Cape Winelands Cape Wrath Cape York Green Cape North Cape Starostin Cape Batcape capekino capeless capelet capelike capeshit capewise flag cape Inverness cape minicape raincape uncape Cape ash Cape boxwood Cape Colony Cape gooseberry Cape gum Cape lion Cape Malay Cape Muslim Cape Province Cape saffron
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