Cape Town
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- proper noun
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Ciudad del Cabo
- Foreign Direct Investment calls Cape Town one of the top 20 expat destinations.
- University of Cape Town
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Cape Town, South
And he said, I have this friends of mine who are in Cape Town, the models, they don't know where to go.
- And he said, I have this friends of mine who are in Cape Town, the models, they don't know where to go.
- So we're at this Ethiopian restaurant here in Cape Town because we're not going to be able to make it to Ethiopia this trip.
- And we were sitting in Cape Town, which is on the southern tip of Africa, and it was a boiling hot day, just kind of like temper for the last week.
- And there was me sort of sipping, you know, this little castle beer or whatever it was in the backpackers in, in Cape Town.
- If you want to go from Auckland to Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, the Auckland, New Zealand, this would be the shortest route.
- He he had come down to Cape Town to visit his wife's parents that have a house in in camp Spain near the beach.
Examples
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The famous penguins can be seen at Boulders Beach near Cape Town, attracting many tourists.
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All being well, I'm going to Cape Town in a couple of days.
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I now live in Cape Town and have a music store.
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Does it rain in Cape Town?
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There are very few teenagers that surf around Cape Town.
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In 1991, I was a visiting scholar at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
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Cape Town is decked out in red and white.
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Cape Town's a furnace in the summer.
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One of the reasons I love Cape Town so much is that everywhere you go, there's either mountains or ocean, pretty much in the whole city.
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Her collection of short stories, You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town, appeared to critical acclaim in 1988.
Fiction book (1996)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The name 'Cape Town' is compositionally transparent: it literally combines 'cape' (a headland into the sea) and 'town' (a settlement), so a learner who knows both words can infer it is a town located on or near a cape. Toponymic constructions of this sort are common cross-linguistically, making the meaning immediately comprehensible rather than idiomatic or metaphorical.
Etymology
Cape Town comes from being the town by a cape, a piece of land that sticks out into the sea, called the 'Cape of Good Hope'. So the name simply means the town at that cape.