Cape Town

Or Capetown

noun

1. a seaport in and the legislative capital of the Republic of South Africa, in the SW part: also capital of Cape of Good Hope province.

Cape Town

noun

1. the legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape province, situated in the southwest on Table Bay: founded in 1652, the first White settlement in southern Africa; important port. Pop: 827 219 (2001)

Cape Town

1. Also Capetown; legislative capital of South Africa. (See also Pretoria.)

Other Word Forms

• Capetonian noun

Example Sentences

But it was not so long ago that the 23-year-old was lining up for the Welsh college as part of an exchange programme with his school in Cape Town.

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He took part in car rallies, once driving from London to Cape Town.

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Smith was banned for a year and sacked as skipper after conspiring to alter the ball during the third Test against South Africa in Cape Town.

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"We will take fundamental decisions and their absence is their loss," Ramaphosa told reporters in the coastal city of Cape Town.

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The Mamdani family also spent at around three years in Cape Town, South Africa, after Mahmood was appointed to the country's University of Cape Town.

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