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NESS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A strip of land projecting into a body of water

Synonyms:

cape; ness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("ness" is a kind of...):

dry land; earth; ground; land; solid ground; terra firma (the solid part of the earth's surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ness"):

spit; tongue (a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea)

Instance hyponyms:

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

Lindesnes; Naze (a cape at the southern tip of Norway)

Cape Passero; Passero Cape (a cape that forms the southeastern corner of the island of Sicily)

Cape of Good Hope (a point of land in southwestern South Africa (south of Cape Town))

Cape May (a cape of southeast New Jersey extending into the Atlantic Ocean)

Cape Fear (a cape in southeastern North Carolina extending into the Atlantic Ocean)

Cape Flattery (a cape of northwestern Washington)

Cape Froward (a cape on the Strait of Magellan in southern Chile; the most southern point on the mainland of South America)

Cape Hatteras (a promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina)

Cape Sable (a cape at the southwest tip of Florida; the southernmost part of the United States mainland)

Cape Trafalgar (a small cape in southwestern Spain)

Cape York (the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait; the northernmost point of the Australian mainland)

Hoek van Holland; Hook of Holland (a cape on the southwestern coast of the Netherlands near Rotterdam)

Skagens Odde; Skaw (a cape on the northernmost tip of Jutland between the Skagerrak and the Kattegatt)

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