cape hatteras

1. 1.

   a promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina

   “frequent storms drive ships to their destruction on Cape Hatteras”

   Broadercapepromontory

   Part ofNorth Carolina

Questions about cape hatteras

What does cape hatteras mean?

cape hatteras means "a promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina".

Is cape hatteras a common word?

cape hatteras is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.