Thesaurus results for HEADLAND

headland

noun

ˈhed-lənd

as in peninsula

an area of high ground jutting out into a body of water beyond the line of the coast the lighthouse, situated on a narrow, rocky headland, commands an expansive view of the coast

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as in cape

an area of land that juts out into a body of water navigation is notoriously difficult at the southernmost tip of South America, where ships must round the headland of Cape Horn

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Recent Examples of headland One of those smaller populations depends on a small patch of wetland wedged between the Sharp Point Golf Course and the headland at Mori Point in Pacifica. —

Pepper St. Clair, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026 From bay to headlands, the Crosstown Trail slices diagonally across San Francisco in a 17-mile arc. —

Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026 The space between the headlands would be filled with nearly 1 million cubic yards of sand taken from ocean deposits. —

Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026 Wind gusts will be particularly strong along windward ridges and exposed coastal headlands. —

Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 1 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for headland

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This system, which could form near Mexico's southern coast later this week, joins another weather disturbance that's also expected to form in the Pacific well off the Baja California peninsula this week.

— Doyle Rice, USA Today, 31 May 2026
Across the peninsula and its islands, volcanic activity shaped the terrain over hundreds of thousands of years.

— Layne Randolph, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026