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CAPE SABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cape Sable mean? 

CAPE SABLE (noun)
  The noun CAPE SABLE has 2 senses:

1. a cape at the southwest tip of Florida; the southernmost part of the United States mainlandplay

2. a promontory on the far southern part of Nova Scotiaplay

  Familiarity information: CAPE SABLE used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CAPE SABLE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A cape at the southwest tip of Florida; the southernmost part of the United States mainland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

cape; ness (a strip of land projecting into a body of water)

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

Everglades National Park (a national park in Florida containing an immense subtropical wilderness with mangrove swamps and rare birds and wild animals)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A promontory on the far southern part of Nova Scotia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

foreland; head; headland; promontory (a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea))

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

Nova Scotia (the Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns)


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