- promontory, headland, foreland - a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
--1 is a kind of natural elevation, elevation
--1 has particulars:Cape Horn; Gibraltar, Rock of Gibraltar, Calpe; Cape Hatteras; Cape Canaveral, Cape Kennedy; Cape Sable; Jebel Musa, Abila, Abyla; mull; point