Ness

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A cape or headland.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A promontory; a cape or headland. (frequently used as a suffix in placenames)
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A promontory; a cape; a headland.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A point of land running into the sea; a promontory; a headland; a cape.
  • n. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a strip of land projecting into a body of water
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    dry land    ground    land    terra firma    earth    solid ground   
    Cross Reference
    Ness    naze    Nes   
    Hyponym
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    promontory    cape    headland   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bess    Es    Etess    Fs    Hess    Hesse    Ins    Jess    Les    S