headland
Americannoun
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a promontory extending into a large body of water.
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a strip of unplowed land at the ends of furrows or near a fence or border.
noun
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a narrow area of land jutting out into a sea, lake, etc
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a strip of land along the edge of an arable field left unploughed to allow space for machines
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of headland
before 1000; Middle English hedeland, Old English hēafodland. See head, land
Vocabulary lists containing headland
Physical Geography - Middle School
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"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 1 of the epic poem
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Physical Geography - High School
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A handwritten label indicated she had been found near the Beachy Head headland sometime in the 1950s, but little additional information was available.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2026
The inexorable wonder-workings of geology — with a fanciful nod to Poseidon, the god of earthquakes and oceans — created that stunning headland that juts its chin out into the Pacific from Los Angeles County.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
A rust-colored dome looms over the muddy farmland of Hinkley Point, a headland overlooking the Bristol Channel in southwest England.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
Others carry a model of the Whitby Wyrm, a dragon-like creature which legend has it used to live on the headland by Whitby Abbey.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023
In all the time he lived, Rontu never left again, and the wild dogs, which for some reason divided into two packs, after that never returned to the headland.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
The headlands site, Point Molate, a former World War II Navy fuel depot largely reclaimed by nature since its closure in 1995, lies just north of the Richmond Bridge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024
Exposed coasts and headlands could experience stronger winds.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2023
At Washington’s most beloved state park, there’s lots to do beyond the bridge: bays, lakes, beaches and headlands beckon.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
Their bonfires lit the rocky headlands when Ferdinand Magellan, the first European to sail these waters, landed in Tierra del Fuego in 1520.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022
There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean very blue with the tide out and the water curling far out along the beach.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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