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CAPE PROVINCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cape Province mean? 

CAPE PROVINCE (noun)
  The noun CAPE PROVINCE has 1 sense:

1. a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africaplay

  Familiarity information: CAPE PROVINCE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CAPE PROVINCE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Cape Colony; Cape of Good Hope Province; Cape Province

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Cape Province" is a part of...):

Republic of South Africa; South Africa (a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers))


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