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Cape Girardeau

Cape Girardeau proper noun: a city in Cape Girardeau County and Scott County, Missouri, United States.

Proper noun

Cape Girardeau

  1. A city in Cape Girardeau County and Scott County, Missouri, United States.

Origin of Cape Girardeau

Named after a promontory (cape) in the Mississippi River, and Jean Baptiste de Girardot (with a change in spelling).

Words formed from Cape Girardeau

Questions about Cape Girardeau

What does Cape Girardeau mean?
Cape Girardeau means a city in Cape Girardeau County and Scott County, Missouri, United States.
What part of speech is Cape Girardeau?
Cape Girardeau is a proper noun.

Words near Cape Girardeau in the dictionary

  1. Cape Fear
  2. Cape Filchner
  3. Cape Flattery
  4. Cape fox
  5. Cape foxes
  6. Cape Girardeau
  7. Cape Girardeau County
  8. Cape gooseberries
  9. Cape gooseberry
  10. Cape gull
  11. Cape gulls

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