Ness

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  • noun. A cape or headland.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A point of land running into the sea; a promontory; a headland; a cape.
  • noun. A suffix of Anglo-Saxon origin, used to form, from adjectives, nouns denoting the abstract quality of the adjective, as goodness, sweetness, whiteness, humbleness, hopefulness, spiritualness, crookedness, neglectedness, obligingness, the quality or state of being good, sweet, white, etc.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A promontory; a cape; a headland.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A promontory; a cape or headland. (frequently used as a suffix in placenames)
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a strip of land projecting into a body of water
    • Word Usage
    "The Republicans, as befits their regional base, value beauty and born-agin 'ness over brains, hence the Palin phenomenon (and she is drop-dead gorgeous)."
    cross-reference
    Nes  Ness  naze  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    dry land  earth  ground  land  solid ground  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    Cape Fear  Cape Flattery  Cape Froward  Cape Hatteras  Cape Horn  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bess  Es  Etess  Fs  Hess  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cape  headland  promontory  
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