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CAPE BRETON ISLAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An island that forms the northeastern part of Nova Scotia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Holonyms ("Cape Breton Island" is a part of...):
Nova Scotia (the Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns)
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