Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cape_colony

1 sense of cape colony

Sense 1
Cape Province, Cape of Good Hope Province, Cape Colony -- (a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa)
       INSTANCE OF=> state, province -- (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south")