cape of good hope

1. 1.

   a point of land in southwestern South Africa (south of Cape Town)

   Broadercape
2. 2.

   a province of western South Africa

   Broaderstate

Questions about cape of good hope

What does cape of good hope mean?

cape of good hope means "a point of land in southwestern South Africa (south of Cape Town)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is cape of good hope a common word?

cape of good hope 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.