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Horn en · PROPN · etymology 1

Meanings

1. Cape Horn, at the southern tip of South America.
   • Sailing around the Horn was an arduous journey for sailing ships.
2. The Horn of Africa, a peninsula of Africa which juts into the Arabian Sea.
   • The word Somali itself today refers to any inhabitant of Somalia; it also refers to any person of ethnic Somali origin in the Horn or elsewhere. 2001, Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi, Culture and Customs of Somalia, →ISBN, page 8:
   • […] countries fail to explore the possibilities of producing other crops of high value and demand in the Horn or elsewhere. 1998, John Markakis, Resource conflict in the Horn of Africa, page 185:
   • At the same time, it would be erroneous to exaggerate U.S. interests, to overreact to political developments in the Horn, or to adopt imprudent policies based on emotional reactions to Soviet and Cuban involvement. 1978, War in the Horn of Africa, report of the United States Fact-Finding Mission to Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya, page 4
   • Although major coups had taken off in the Arab world in Egypt in 1952, this was the first coup in the Horn or indeed in post-independence Africa. 2012, Peter Woodward, Crisis In The Horn of Africa, →ISBN, page 39:

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Horn en · PROPN · etymology 2

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A surname.
2. (countable, uncountable) A former civil parish in Rutland, England, abolished in 2016 on the formation of Exton and Horn parish.
3. (countable, uncountable) An unincorporated community in Dawes County, Nebraska, United States.

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Deriveds

Horn Kolb syndrome · Exton and Horn