an area of high ground jutting out into a body of water beyond the line of the coastthe lighthouse, situated on a narrow, rocky headland, commands an expansive view of the coast
an area of land that juts out into a body of waternavigation is notoriously difficult at the southernmost tip of South America, where ships must round the headland of Cape Horn
arm, cape, foreland, ness, peninsula, point, promontory, spit