Cape Canaveral
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- proper noun
- /keɪp ˌkænəˈvɛrəl/
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Cabo Cañaveral
- The $85 million rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral early this morning.
- Cape Canaveral launch
- Cape Canaveral launch pad
- NASA facilities at Cape Canaveral
Examples
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We launched Magellan from Cape Canaveral on May 4, 1989, on board the shuttle Atlantis.
Academic text (1991) -
Right now a team ofAmerican astronauts and one Russian are at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
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I took a trip to Cape Canaveral when I was a kid.
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We have a live report coming in from Cape Canaveral.
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It's a historic day, here at Cape Canaveral.
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We're now going live to Cape Canaveral... ...for the latest update on this story.
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And NASA is hiring me to go to work for them at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Solar Orbiter was launched back in February this year from the Cape Canaveral launch site in Florida.
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The crew of the space shuttle Atlantis finally came home to Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on its seven-year, 2-billion-mile journey to Saturn.
Synonyms
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A sandy point on Florida's east coast where NASA launches rockets
Surface Forms
Morphology
cape + Canaveral
The noun 'cape' clearly indicates a coastal promontory, so a learner who knows that word and recognizes 'Canaveral' as a proper name can infer this is a place—a cape called Canaveral. However, the specific referent (that it is in Florida and a major NASA launch site) is not derivable from the constituents because 'Canaveral' carries no independent lexical meaning, so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Cape Canaveral comes from Spanish explorers who called the coast 'Cabo Cañaveral', meaning Cape (a point of land) and Canaveral ('place of reeds') because the sandy point had many reeds. That's why the same name is used today for the Florida place famous as a 'space launch site'.