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PRONUNCIATION OF CAPE COMORIN

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WHAT DOES CAPE COMORIN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Kanyakumari

Kanyakumari ( pronunciation (help·info)), formerly known as Cape Comorin, is a town in Kanyakumari District in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. It lies at the southernmost tip of mainland India (the southern extremity of India as a whole being Indira Point on Great Nicobar Island). Cape Comorin is the southern tip of the Cardamom Hills, an extension of the Western Ghats range along the west coast of India. The nearest major city is Nagercoil, the administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari District, 22 km (14 mi) away. Kanyakumari was one of the important towns of the ancient Tamilakam (Sangam period) and is a popular tourist destination.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CAPE COMORIN

Cape Bon
Cape Breton Island
Cape buffalo
Cape Canaveral
Cape cart
Cape Chelyuskin
Cape Cod
Cape Cod cottage
Cape Colony
Cape Coloured
Cape Delgado
Cape Dezhnev
Cape doctor
Cape Dutch
Cape Finisterre
Cape Flats
cape gooseberry
Cape Guardafui
Cape Hatteras
Cape Helles

WORDS THAT END LIKE CAPE COMORIN

aequorin
aquaporin
cephalosporin
chlorin
chlorocruorin
ciclosporin
Comorin
cyclosporin
euchlorin
fiorin
florin
fluorin
Ilorin
taborin

Synonyms and antonyms of Cape Comorin in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Cape Comorin» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CAPE COMORIN

Find out the translation of Cape Comorin to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Cape Comorin from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Cape Comorin» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

科摩林海角
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Cabo Comorin
570 millions of speakers

English

Cape Comorin
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

केप कोमोरिन
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

كيب كومورين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Мыс Comorin
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Cabo Comorim
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কেপ কমোরিন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Cap Comorin
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cape Comorin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Cape Comorin
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

コモリン岬
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

케이프 Comorin
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tanjung Comorin
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Cape Comorin
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கேப் கொமோரின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

केप कॉमोरिन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Cape Comorin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Cape Comorin
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Cape Comorin
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Мис Comorin
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Cape Comorin
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Cape Comorin
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Cape Comorin
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Cape Comorin
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Cape Comorin
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Cape Comorin

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CAPE COMORIN»

The term «Cape Comorin» is normally little used and occupies the 141.077 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CAPE COMORIN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Cape Comorin

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAPE COMORIN»

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Cobra Road: Khyber to Cape Comorin
Trevor Fishlock set off from the gables of the Khyber, zigzagged to India's southern tip at Cape Comorin and came to the little town whose intriguing name was the seed of his odyssey.
Trevor Fishlock, 2000
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Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 India & Bay of Bengal Enroute
Cape Comorin Light is shown from a square white tower, 34m high, and painted in red bands, about 0.3 mile NW of the cape. A church, 54m high, lies in a village about 0.5 mile N of the cape. Good radar returns have been reported from Cape ...
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The Oriental Navigator, Or, New Directions for Sailing to ...
Mr. Nichslson sounded all about this rock, and took the following bearings upon it , viz. the northernmost of the rocky islots N. i W. the outermost high-land of Cape Comorin E. by N. ~ N. the outermost low land, which is the very pitch of the cape,  ...
Joseph Huddart, 1801
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Report of the ... Meeting
In the year 1 843 Cape Comorin is added to the eight stations in Travancore, and the observations at all the stations are for the whole year. At Cape Comorin, at an elevation of fifty feet above the sea, we have the singular fact of not a single ...
British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1847
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Descriptive Physical Oceanography
The west coast of India from Cape Comorin to the extreme north of Gujarat Coast in about 3, 200 km long, while the east coast of India which extends from Cape Comorin to the mouth of Hoogly has an approximate length of about 2, 800 km.
M. Affholder, F. Valiron, 2001
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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the ...
In the year 1 843 Cape Comorin is added to the eight stations in Travancore, and the observations at all the stations are for the whole year. At Cape Comorin, at an elevation of fifty feet above the sea, we have the singular fact of not a single ...
British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting, 1847
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Report of the Annual Meeting
In the year 1 843 Cape Comorin is ndded to the eight stations in Travancore, and the observations at all the stations are for the whole year. At Cape Comorin, at an elevation of fifty feet above the sea, we have the singular fact of not a single ...
British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting, 1847
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India Directory, Or, Directions for Sailing to and from the ...
TO SAIL BETWEEN CAPE COMORIN AND POINT DE GALLE. COAST OF MADURA, AND GULF OF MANAR. POINT DE GALLE, bears from Cape Comorin S. 53° E. true bearing, distant 66 leagues. Ships crossing from the Cape in the S. W. ...
James Horsburgh, 1836
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A Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Description of ...
A town on the sea coast of Tinnevelly, 90 miles N.E. from Cape Comorin. Lat. 8° 57' N. long. 78° 36' E. At this place there is a pearl fishery, but the pearls found are reckoned inferior to those procured in the bay of Condatchy, off the coast of ...
Walter Hamilton (M.R.A.S.), 1820
10
A geographical, statistical, and historical description of ...
At other times the Brahmins describe their country as the space between the Himalaya mountains and Ramisseram in the straits of Ceylon, for Cape Comorin as a geographical point never appears to have attracted any attention. The modern ...
Walter Hamilton (M.R.A.S.), 1820

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAPE COMORIN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Cape Comorin is used in the context of the following news items.
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No soft options to tackle hard reality
Given the extent of the area — from coastal areas of West Bengal in the east to Cape Comorin in the south and Gujarat in the West — one can ... «The Northlines, Jun 15»
2
Glorious Sunsets and Multi-hued Sands
From the interior parts of Tamil Nadu, we made our way to the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent, Kanyakumari or Cape Comorin as it was ... «The New Indian Express, Jun 15»
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Glorious Sunsets, Multi-Hued Sands Careless Tourists and Milling …
... Cherlas and Pandyas, we made our way to the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent, Kanyakumari or Cape Comorin as it was once called. «The New Indian Express, Jun 15»
4
'Saare jahan se achha… Hindustan hamara''
From the Himalayas to the Cape Comorin, a keen observer's sight can never miss out on this latent unity amongst its inhabitants. This is the ... «The Statesman, Jun 15»
5
Small men cannot dismantle tall Nehru
Nehru recalled how the Swami thundered from Cape Comorin in the southern tip of India to the Himalayas and he wore himself out in the ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Jun 15»
6
The Madras-Everest Odyssey
Starting with a baseline of 7.5 miles at Saint Thomas Mount, the survey then moved to Cape Comorin (Kanyakumari) and then extended all the ... «The New Indian Express, Apr 15»
7
Rain ruins weekend plans of Bengalureans
A trough from this system extends upto Cape Comorin and spread across Maharashtra, interior Karnataka and Kerala with an embedded ... «Deccan Herald, Apr 15»
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Once upon a time, when India was young, this is what Republic Day …
Today for the first time in our long and chequered history we find the whole of this vast land from Kashmir in the north to Cape Comorin in the ... «Quartz, Jan 15»
9
What method in madness!
... suffice it to say that 'all mediaeval historic buildings in India from Kashmir to Cape Comorin are one and all pre-Muslim Hindu buildings. «Milli Gazette, Dec 14»
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Rail users seek spl trains to Goa for 17th exposition of St Francis …
Francis Xavier (1506 -1552 AD), the first Jesuit missionary to India from Spain arrived at Cape Comorin in the year 1542 after landing in ... «Times of India, Nov 14»

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