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CAPE FEAR

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Cape Fear mean?

• CAPE FEAR (noun)
The noun CAPE FEAR has 1 sense:

1. a cape in southeastern North Carolina extending into the Atlantic Ocean

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

Dictionary entry details

• CAPE FEAR (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A cape in southeastern North Carolina extending into the Atlantic Ocean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

NC; North Carolina; Old North State; Tar Heel State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies)

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