Horn
proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue
Cape Horn, at the southern tip of South America.
proper noun
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Cape Horn, at the southern tip of South America.
Sailing around the Horn was an arduous journey for sailing ships.
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The Horn of Africa, a peninsula of Africa which juts into the Arabian Sea.
At the same time, it would be erroneous to exaggerate U.S. interests, to overreact to political developments in the Horn, or to adopt imprudent policies based on emotional reactions to Soviet and Cuban involvement.
[…] countries fail to explore the possibilities of producing other crops of high value and demand in the Horn or elsewhere.
The word Somali itself today refers to any inhabitant of Somalia; it also refers to any person of ethnic Somali origin in the Horn or elsewhere.
Although major coups had taken off in the Arab world in Egypt in 1952, this was the first coup in the Horn or indeed in post-independence Africa.
proper noun
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A surname.
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A former civil parish in Rutland, England, abolished in 2016 on the formation of Exton and Horn parish.
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An unincorporated community in Dawes County, Nebraska, United States.
Forms
- plural
- Horns
Horn · Cape Horn, at the southern tip of South America.
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