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View synonyms for home port

home port

noun

  1. the port where a ship is registered.
  2. the port out of which a ship is operated but not necessarily registered.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of home port1

First recorded in 1890–95

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Example Sentences

The boys explained to the astonished and grieved Younkins how they had been wrecked, as it were, almost in sight of the home port.

As we neared our home port we met two trollers, one of whom lifted up for envious inspection a lusty pickerel.

"Scoot" is the only word that would fittingly describe the Hawk's return to her home port.

A ship had just come in, the sailors browned and cheerful at being once more in their home port.

He answered to the hail of Billings, and his home port was the Stumpton ranch, 'way out in Montana.

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