Cape Verde
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3.5
- proper noun
- /keɪp vɜrd/
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Cabo Verde
- Her husband was a trained carpenter, but he also harbored other dreams—to become a marathon runner representing Cape Verde in international competitions.
- Cape Verde Islands
Examples
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And an island in Cape Verde... - where there are no extradition laws.
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When that incident forced Beyou to divert to Cape Verde.
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You know, I bought an island in Cape Verde.
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We'll start a whole new life in Cape Verde and nobody has to go to prison.
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The Matre CoQ skipper has reached the Cape Verde Islands, where he was able to analyze his situation.
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Mauritius came top in the overall index, followed by Cape Verde, Botswana, and the Seychelles, continuing the same pattern as last year.
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Cast as a developing nation of success where tourism is flourishing and where foreigners dine on lobster to the sound of guitars and violins, Cape Verde's food vulnerability is quickly forgotten.
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Bidons sent from the USA and from Europe to Cape Verde provide desirable clothing and other paraphernalia, in addition to canned foods, dried beans, corn, candy, and chocolates.
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During this time, I lived in the peri-periphery of Mindelo, the second largest town of Cape Verde, boasting a population of 67,163 residents (INE Censo 2000).
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Her trip ends on Friday with a visit to the island nation of Cape Verde.
Synonyms
A country of ten volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa
A group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Africa now called Cabo Verde
Surface Forms
Morphology
cape + Verde
The elements 'cape' (a headland) and 'Verde' (meaning 'green' in Romance languages) give a literal image of a geographic feature and therefore signal a place-name, but they do not transparently convey that the referent is an island nation called the Republic of Cabo Verde. Additionally, 'Verde' is not an English lexical item for many learners, and the toponym functions as a conventional name rather than a fully compositional phrase, so a B1 learner might guess it is a place but not reliably infer the full meaning.
Etymology
Cape Verde may come from Portuguese sailors who named a nearby point of land 'Cabo Verde'. The two parts are Cape, a point of land, and Verde, meaning 'green', because the coast looked green, so the islands later took that name and the country is still called Cape Verde today.