Comorin

American  

[kom-er-in] / ˈkɒm ər ɪn /

noun

1. Cape, a cape on the S tip of India, extending into the Indian Ocean.

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Comorin British  

/ ˈkɒmərɪn /

noun

1. a headland at the southernmost point of India, in Tamil Nadu state

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Example Sentences

The land is vast and cruel, running some 2,000 miles from the icy peaks of the Himalayas, in the heart of central Asia, down to the steaming jungles of Cape Comorin, on the Indian Ocean.

From Time Magazine Archive

"But India, from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, is going to remain one solid, united entity in spite of everything and everybody."

From Time Magazine Archive

In India the heat was creeping north from Cape Comorin, the heat which would grow to a relentless blaze scorching the country until the June monsoon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Annandale, "Description of a new species of Sponge from Cape Comorin," Rec.

From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson

As we approach the south this abandonment of the monosyllabic character increases, and from the Tamul language spoken between Pulicat and Cape Comorin, the term Tamulian—applicable in a general ethnological sense—is derived.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)