PROMONTORY

 Dictionary entry overview: What does promontory mean? 

• PROMONTORY (noun)
  The noun PROMONTORY has 1 sense:

1. a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)

  Familiarity information: PROMONTORY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROMONTORY (noun)

Meaning:

A natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

foreland; headland; promontory; head

Hypernyms ("promontory" is a kind of...):

elevation; natural elevation (a raised or elevated geological formation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "promontory"):

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)