Cape Verdenoun
uk/ˌkeɪp ˈvɜːd/us/ˌkeɪp ˈvɝːd/a country formed of several islands west of Africa
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Countries, nationalities & continents: country names
- Afghanistan
- Alaska
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- French Polynesia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- the Cayman Islands
- the Cook Islands
- the Czech Republic
- the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- the Dominican Republic
See more results »
Examples from literature
- And passing by Cape Verde he sailed on sixty leagues and found a river, where he judged there ought to be some people living.
- At Madeira they were joined by two more, and the whole fleet sailed through the Canary island group to Cape Verde.
- Having despatched my small affairs at the Cape Verde Islands I meditated on the process of my voyage.
- He alleges many reasons in proof of this assertion, and even says particularly, that these early navigators sailed in forty days from Cape Verde to these islands.
- They are called the Cape Verde islands, and are distant only a day's sail from the western part of Ethiopia.