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# headland

«headland» in Mova's school dictionary: **a high piece of land with steep cliffs that sticks out…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a headland, headlands)

### meaning for a pupil

A headland is a high piece of land with steep cliffs that sticks out into the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headland/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons about coasts, headlands form where hard rock wears away slowly while soft rock nearby is eaten away into bays. Waves attack headlands and make caves, arches and stacks. In stories, lighthouses often stand on headlands.

### examples

- A lighthouse stands on the headland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headland/#x1)
- Waves crash against the rocky headland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headland/#x2)
- Headlands are made of hard rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headland/#x3)
- The bay is sheltered between two headlands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headland/#x4)
- We walked along the cliff path to the headland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headland/#x5)
- Over time, a cave in a headland can become an arch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headland/#x6)
- From the headland we could see dolphins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headland/#x7)
- The vessel glided between the headlands of the port, and the giant resumed his march. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headland/#x8)

### note

Countable: headlands. Similar: cape, point, promontory (formal). Opposite coastal feature: a bay. Geography order: cave → arch → stack → stump.

### In the corpora

- [Coasts with hard and soft rock form headlands and bays, since soft rock wears back faster.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/7/)
- [Waves cut caves into headlands, the caves join into arches, and when arches fall, stacks are left.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «headland» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headland/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.