CAPE BRETON ISLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cape Breton Island mean? 

• CAPE BRETON ISLAND (noun)
  The noun CAPE BRETON ISLAND has 1 sense:

1. an island that forms the northeastern part of Nova Scotia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPE BRETON ISLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island that forms the northeastern part of Nova Scotia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Holonyms ("Cape Breton Island" 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)