Usually means: Prominent point of land, water.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word cape:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. cape: Merriam-Webster
  2. Cape, cape, cape, the Cape: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Cape, cape, cape: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cape, the Cape: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cape: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cape, cape, the cape: Wordnik
  7. cape: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cape, cape: Wiktionary
  9. cape: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cape: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cape: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cape, the cape: Dictionary.com
  13. cape (1), cape (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cape: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cape (disambiguation), Cape (dog), Cape (geography), Cape, The Cape: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cape: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cape: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cape: Rhymezone
  19. cape, cape (de), cape (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cape: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CAPE, cape: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Cape: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. cape, the cape: FreeDictionary.org
  24. cape: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Cape, The Cape: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. cape: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. cape: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Cape, The Cape: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Cape, cape: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAPE, The Cape: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAPE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cape: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. CAPE: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cape, the cape: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See capes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
noun:  A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders.
noun:  (slang) A superhero.
verb:  To incite or attract (a bull) to charge a certain direction, by waving a cape.
verb:  (nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.
verb:  To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
verb:  (US, slang, chiefly with "for") To defend or praise, especially that which is unworthy.
verb:  (transitive) To cover (as) with or like a cape.
noun:  (countable) A surname.
noun:  (meteorology) Convective available potential energy
noun:  (southern Africa) Ellipsis of Cape of Good Hope. [A headland in southwestern South Africa, near Cape Town.]
noun:  (South Africa) Ellipsis of Cape Province, South Africa. Cape Province was split into three in 1994.
noun:  Ellipsis of Cape Cod. [A geographic cape extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts in the northeastern United States.]
noun:  (historical, southern Africa) Ellipsis of Cape Colony. [(historical) A British colony in present-day South Africa and Namibia, named for the Cape of Good Hope.]
noun:  (space flight) Ellipsis of Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA; where the major U.S. spaceflight complex is located. [A cape in Florida, United States.]

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