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seaport

[ see-pawrt, -pohrt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a port or harbor on or accessible to a seacoast and providing accommodation for seagoing vessels.
a town or city at such a place.

seaport

/ ˈsiːˌpɔːt /

Origin of seaport¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; sea + port ¹

Delicate melodies do not represent this tough industrial seaport.

She had to cross the Atlantic in that year, and stopped on some business in the harbor of Portsmouth, an English seaport.

Goods sell at Chihuahua at about 200 per cent, on the prices of our Atlantic seaport towns.

According to one of their own traditions Eridu, originally a seaport, was their racial cradle.

At last she said, 'Give us some sea songs; she comes from a seaport town, and will maybe like them better.'

On April 22, the bishop, with one companion, left the seaport for his first journey in the land of his adoption.

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