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HEADLAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
Synonyms:
foreland; head; headland; promontory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("headland" is a kind of...):
elevation; natural elevation (a raised or elevated geological formation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "headland"):
mull (a term used in Scottish names of promontories)
point (a promontory extending out into a large body of water)
Instance hyponyms:
Cape Horn (a rocky headland belonging to Chile at the southernmost tip of South America (south of Tierra del Fuego))
Calpe; Gibraltar; Rock of Gibraltar (location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules)
Cape Hatteras (a promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina)
Cape Canaveral; Cape Kennedy (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)
Cape Sable (a promontory on the far southern part of Nova Scotia)
Abila; Abyla; Jebel Musa (a promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar; one of the Pillars of Hercules)
