headland

1. 1.

   a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)

   Synonymspromontoryheadforeland

   Broadernatural elevation

   NarrowerCape HornGibraltarCape HatterasCape CanaveralCape SableJebel Musamullpoint

Other forms of headland

plural

headlands·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about headland

What does headland mean?

headland means "a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)".

How many syllables are in headland?

headland has 3 syllables: he-ad-land. The stress falls on "he".

What is another word for headland?

Close synonyms include promontory, head, foreland. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is headland a common word?

headland 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.