cape fear

1. 1.

   a cape in southeastern North Carolina extending into the Atlantic Ocean

   Broadercape

   Part ofNorth Carolina

Questions about cape fear

What does cape fear mean?

cape fear means "a cape in southeastern North Carolina extending into the Atlantic Ocean".

Is cape fear a common word?

cape fear is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.