Definition of Cape colony

1. Noun. 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.

Exact synonyms: Cape Of Good Hope Province, Cape Province
Generic synonyms: Province, State
Group relationships: Republic Of South Africa, South Africa

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cape Colony

Caodaiist
Caodaiists
Caodaism
Cap(m(7)GpppXm) endonuclease
Cap-Haïtien
Cape Ann
Cape Breton
Cape Breton Island
Cape Canaveral
Cape Cod
Cape Cod Bay
Cape Cod Canal
Cape Cod and the Islands
Cape Codder
Cape Codders
Cape Colony
Cape Fear
Cape Fear River
Cape Flattery
Cape Girardeau
Cape Hatteras
Cape Horn
Cape Kennedy
Cape May
Cape May warbler
Cape Province
Cape Sable
Cape Town
Cape Trafalgar

Literary usage of Cape colony

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1905)
"Governor of the Transvaal), William Lefevre (cape colony), CA Lionel Legge (British Guiana), Ernest A. Lloyd (East Africa), G. Ian MacAlister (Canada), ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1906)
"NATURAL MOUNDS IN cape colony. ERNEST HL SCHWARZ, Professor of Geology, Rhodes University College, Grahamstown. interesting discussion that has been going ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"cape colony as such then ceased to exist. In the present article, however, the word " colony " is retained. The " provinces " referred to are the colonial ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1877)
"The moment of the grant of a similar Constitution to tne cape colony was selected, as if deliberately, for a pro- feeding which taught our Dutch ..."

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