Cape Town

or Capetown

noun

1. a seaport in and the legislative capital of the Republic of South Africa, in the SW part: also capital of Cape of Good Hope province.

Cape Town

noun

1. the legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape province, situated in the southwest on Table Bay: founded in 1652, the first White settlement in southern Africa; important port. Pop: 827 219 (2001)

Cape Town

1. Also Capetown; legislative capital of South Africa . ( See also Pretoria .)

Other Words From

• Cape·to·ni·an [keyp-, toh, -nee-, uh, n], noun

Example Sentences

Researchers in Cape Town are starting local clinical trials of a Covid-19 vaccine designed to protect people from infection caused by variants of the coronavirus, now and in the future.

From Quartz

Pinkham had gone on to found Amazon’s software development center in Cape Town.

From Quartz

New roles Aryn Baker becomes a Senior Correspondent covering the human impacts of climate change and other topics Aryn recently completed her move from Cape Town to Rome.

From Time

With the disproportionate influence of Silicon Valley investment on Africa’s top tech hubs in Lagos, Nairobi and Cape Town, this debate isn’t going away anytime soon.

From Quartz

You haven’t experienced Cape Town if you haven’t tried the Cape Malay pickled fish.

From Ozy

In 2012, Nicholas and Chris Grava worked at an orphanage in an impoverished area in Cape Town, South Africa.

From The Daily Beast

The happy email is from a South African woman, Lou, whom I met in Cape Town last year.

From The Daily Beast

The woman claimed that the pictures she posted were taken in the fall of 2013 in Cape Town.

From The Daily Beast

He attended the American International School of Cape Town and reports, “I loved it and made some great friends there.”

From The Daily Beast

On February 11, 1990, Mandela left prison and rode into Cape Town past miles of cheering crowds.

From The Daily Beast

Masters and I arranged to come home together and eventually reached Cape Town.

From Project Gutenberg

Their chief station is Genadendal, eighty miles east of Cape Town, which has several smaller stations grouped around it.

From Project Gutenberg

Then there was at Cape Town something like a famine of news; by far the latest and most trustworthy came from London.

From Project Gutenberg

She is indifferent to the gentleman in the Cape Town penal settlement?

From Project Gutenberg

Cape Town presented a series of wide, regularly arranged streets, intersecting each other, their sides sheltered by foliage trees.

From Project Gutenberg