Cape Cod
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- proper noun
- /keɪp kɒd/
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Cabo Cod
- Every summer, my family rents a cottage in Cape Cod to enjoy the beautiful beaches.
- Cape Cod region
Examples
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Are you from Cape Cod?
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If lighthouses are a passion, Nobska Light—one of the most photogenic on Cape Cod—is right around the corner.
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It's one of the best on Cape Cod.
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Do you remember last summer at Cape Cod?
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Why would you go to Cape Cod?
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We were just on Cape Cod.
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Our family vacation was on Cape Cod at the end of July.
Blog text (32) -
Unfortunately, a lot of the beauty of Cape Cod has disappeared under the backhoe.
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And it was an end-of-summer muggy Cape Cod day.
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In November 1620, the Mayflower was anchored in the shallows off the coast of Cape Cod.
Fiction book (1992)
Surface Forms
Morphology
cape + Cod
The constituent 'cape' clearly signals a geographic promontory, so a learner who knows 'cape' and 'cod' would infer this is a place (a cape) likely named after the fish 'cod'. However, the specific identity, location (southeastern Massachusetts) and its status as a popular resort are not derivable from the parts alone, so understanding is partial rather than full.
Etymology
Cape Cod comes from an English sailor who saw so many cod fish near the shore that he called the point of land a cape of cod. That's why Cape Cod today is the name of the piece of land in Massachusetts that sticks into the sea and is known for its fishing and beaches.