Cape Cod

American  

noun

1. a sandy peninsula in SE Massachusetts between Cape Cod Bay and the Atlantic Ocean: many resort towns.

2. a style of cottage developed mainly on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the 18th and early 19th centuries, typically a rectangular one- or one-and-a-half story wooden cottage covered by a gable roof and having a central chimney.

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Cape Cod British  

noun

1. a long sandy peninsula in SE Massachusetts, between Cape Cod Bay and the Atlantic

2. Also called: Cape Cod cottage.  a one-storey cottage of timber construction with a simple gable roof and a large central chimney: originated on Cape Cod in the 18th century

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Cape Cod Cultural  

1. Resort area on the Atlantic Ocean in Massachusetts. Its fishhook shape is easily recognized on a map.

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Cape Cod

Proceeds from selling their New Jersey home and a smaller vacation home in Falmouth, which is on Cape Cod, more than covered the nearly $2 million purchase price.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Not Nantucket or Cape Cod, but the summertime refuge for Manhattan’s wealthy.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

The biggest concern remains the Snacks division, which includes brands such as Goldfish, Snyder’s of Hanover, and Cape Cod.

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

When Thoreau set out for his first of his three chronicled trips to Cape Cod in 1849, he was a virtually unknown hanger-on to America’s foremost public intellectual, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Seals were all over Cape Cod, but I had never seen one in Rockport.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen