CAPE CANAVERAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cape Canaveral mean? 

• CAPE CANAVERAL (noun)
  The noun CAPE CANAVERAL 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 CANAVERAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPE CANAVERAL (noun)

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 Canaveral" 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)

 Context examples 

GOES-R, the first of NOAA’s highly advanced geostationary weather satellites, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 6:42 p.m. on November 19.

(GOES-R heads to orbit, will improve weather forecasting, NOAA)

They plan to launch the vehicles from Cape Canaveral next year on a Space X Falcon 9 rocket.

(Moon to Get Its Own Mobile Network, VOA)

Cassini launched in 1997 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and arrived at Saturn in 2004.

(Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn, NASA)

Juno launched on Aug. 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

(NASA Juno data indicate another possible volcano on Jupiter moon Io, NASA)

MAVEN launched Nov. 18, 2013, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying three instrument packages.

(Mars Mission Spacecraft Enters Orbit around Red Planet, NASA)