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Portland

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Port⋅land

  [pawrt-luhnd, pohrt-]
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–noun
1. a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers. 366,383.
2. a seaport in SW Maine, on Casco Bay. 61,572.
3. a town in S Texas. 12,023.
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Port·land   (pôrt'lənd, pōrt'-)   

  1. A city of southwest Maine on an arm of the Gulf of Maine south of Lewiston. Settled c. 1632, it became a commercial center in the 17th century and was state capital from 1820 to 1832. It is the largest city in the state. Population: 63,000.

  2. The largest city of Oregon, in the northwest part of the state on the Willamette River near its junction with the Columbia River. Founded in 1845, it grew as a lumber-exporting port and supply point for the California and Alaska goldfields. Population: 537,000.

Port'land·er n.
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Portland

Two major cities in the United States: the largest city in Oregon and the largest city in Maine.

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Word Origin & History

Portland 
in Portland cement, 1720, named by its inventor, Eng. mason Joseph Aspdin, from resemblance of the color to the stone of Portland peninsula on the coast of Dorsetshire.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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