HOW TO PRONOUNCE
Cape Verde
/keɪp ˈvɜɹd/
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What does Cape Verde mean?
proper noun
- An archipelago and country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Cabo Verde. Capital: Praia.
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IPA pronunciation
/keɪp ˈvɜɹd/
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/keɪp ˈvɜɹ.di/
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It must be a continent, or at least an island—one of the Canaries, or of the Cape Verde Islands.
Cape Verde annually runs a high trade deficit, financed by remittances from emigrants, cash grants, food aid, and foreign loans.
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R.T. Lowe has written me a capital letter on the Madeiran, Canarian, and Cape Verde floras.
From the first day of our departure from the islands of Cape Verde, we sailed 54 days without sight of land.
Then leaving the Cape Verde Islands out of sight astern, I found myself once more sailing a lonely sea and in a solitude supreme all around.