Verde

American

[vurd] / vɜrd /

noun

Cape, a cape in Senegal, near Dakar: the westernmost point of Africa.

Verde British

/ vɜːd /

noun

a cape in Senegal, near Dakar: the westernmost point of Africa See also Cape Verde

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Fiji said last month it expected the heads of state for Antigua and Barbuda, Cape Verde, Thailand, the Maldives and Timor-Leste would attend.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

We’re already well into the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, and storm trackers are closely watching what forms near Cape Verde, off the west coast of Africa, that may become the next big storm.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Residents of Val Verde, a tiny town north of Los Angeles, claim Downtown LA Law Group used a cowboy recruiter to find plaintiffs for lawsuits against a local landfill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

It is the latter which Infantino is championing, especially after the heroics of Cape Verde.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

If Monte Verde was a minimum of 12,800 years old, Indians must have come to the Americas thousands of years before that.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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